Exploring Interreligious Relations &
Interfaith Culture
May is month three in TIO’s five-month focus on writers from different religious traditions who have given a particularly rich stream of articles to this publication. This month two progressive Christians are featured. They come from similar backgrounds but address completely different constituencies. Vicki Garlock writes beautifully about children and how they learn about different faiths and practices. By contrast, Bud Heckman unpacks the global story, where budgets, policies, politics, and personalities, and all their attendant issues, somehow steer the ‘interfaith ship’ into the future. Caught somewhere between their two arenas, interfaith culture is emerging.
In June, Eboo Patel, Muslim, author, and founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, will be featured, including excerpts from the opening chapter of his soon- to-be-published book, Interfaith Leadership. TIO will return to its standard format in September.
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EDITORIAL
Featuring Vicki Garlock and Bud Heckman by Paul Chaffee
For Our Children, from Vicki Garlock…
A Bible-Based, Interfaith Sunday School Curriculum (Sept. 2015)
Helping Kids Connect to the Earth (Feb. 2015)
Meditation for Kids (July 2015)
Seeking Peace through Art for Children (March 2015)
Serve2Unite Takes on Violence Fearlessly (February 2016)
Let’s Get this Party Started! (Jan. 2015)
For the World, from Bud Heckman…
The Interfaith Movement’s Evolution and Future Challenges An Interview with Bud Heckman by Katherine Marshall (March 2015)
Dealing with Tough Issues: Creating a Movement toward Social Cohesion and Peace (July 2013)
Why the ‘Interfaith Movement’ Must Rebrand (March 2013)
Funding for the Interfaith Movement (May 2014)
Five Reasons that ‘Interfaith’ is Not a Movement (Yet) (November 2015)
Obama’s Interfaith Vision and the Restlessness of Our Wretched Refuse (January 2016)
Hacking a Better Future for Interfaith Cooperation (May 2016)