The Interfaith Observer’s Values & Aims

The Interfaith Observer’s core Values and Aims are lived each day. The team of students, staff, faculty and our communities of writers and readers, endeavor to:

1. Cultivate Religious Literacy: Address interfaith history, explore and highlight interdisciplinary issues that advance interfaith cooperation, and provide an enduring record of the emerging interfaith movement in its various forms and expressions, including photography and video.

2. Promote Religious Freedom: Pioneer diversity, inclusivity, and respectful relationships within and among religious and philosophical traditions, and spiritual pathways.

3. Report Fair and Useful Content: Report news and activities of the world’s major interfaith stakeholders, including important national, regional, and local religious activities.

4. Encourage Interreligious Engagement: Including dialogue between faiths, philosophies, and spiritual worldviews. Transform strangers into friends; respect one's neighbor and engender trust.

5. Respond to Societal Challenges: Address and support engagement and activities around issues such as climate change, religious bigotry, immigration policy, and the marginalization of communities.

6. Engender a Vital Interfaith Culture: Encourage vital, healthy, fair engagement, and foster networking and communication amongst actors in the interfaith movement.

7. Explore Interdisciplinary Advancement: Participate in action, study and dialogue that advances meaningful cooperation, includes interdisciplinary contributions, and seeks intersectional contributors for addressing challenges and enhancing problem-solving for a brighter, more wholesome future.

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