Helping Congregations Prepare for Interfaith Dialogue

The following online resources vary in both activity and depth.  Browse by clicking on the links below to choose one for your congregation.

Read an article describing a Muslim-Christian Dialogue through Lutheran Campus Ministry, and brainstorm the possibilities for this in your own community: Lutheran Campus Ministry:  A Dialogue On Campus

Sponsor an evening worship service highlighting the importance of interfaith dialogue:  download for free from the National Council of Churches: A Worship Service from the NCC

Read and discuss the following WCC statement: 
“Issues in Christian-Muslim Relations:  Ecumenical Considerations.” This statement is quite substantial, and provides further thought and direction for those seriously interested in interfaith dialogue. Available online:   www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/interreligious/c-mrel-e.html.

Work through the following WCC text, used by congregations world-wide: 
My Neighbor's Faith and Mine: Theological Discoveries through Interfaith Dialogue 

From the World Council of Churches: 
-Guidelines on Dialogue With People of Living Faiths and Ideologies 
-My Neighbor's Faith and Mine: Theological Discoveries through Interfaith Dialogue 

From the National Council of Churches:
-The full text of the Policy Statement, Interfaith Relations and the Churches
-A brief theological commentary on the Policy Statement

From the Presbyterian Church USA: 
-Presbyterian Principles for Interfaith Dialogue 
-Interfaith Participation 
-Guidelines for Interfaith Dialogue  
-Christians and Muslims
-Witness and Evangelism Among People of Other Faiths 
-Interfaith Celebration, Prayer and Worship
-Interfaith Marriage
-Respectful Presence
-Interfaith Relations Office Bibliography

To explore more resources, follow the following links to these interfaith pages:

-World Council of Churches: Interreligous Relations

-NCC Interfaith Relations: Christians and Neighbors of Other Religions in the U.S.A.

-Presbyterian Church USA: Office for Interfaith and Ecumenical Relations

-ELCA Department for Ecumenical Affairs and Interfaith Dialogue