Interreligious Dialogue in Troubled Times

My fear is that much as the investment and institutional support offered to IRD processes can enter doom-loops, so too can community engagement with such spaces. As the messaging around participation gets increasingly negative and hostile, the harder it becomes for people to choose to engage. The result must therefore be fewer relationships being formed and less solidarity and understanding.

On Dialogue: Talking about “The Conflict”

In my experience, the starting point must be an acknowledgement that what happens between Israelis and Palestinians over there, has a profound impact on individuals here.

Parenting with Cancer

I need to begin by acknowledging that this is uncomfortable to write. It is uncomfortable because this piece is about being alongside someone who I love as they died, and about the experience of living with and alongside cancer for three years. It is not uncomfortable to talk about Nat’s death in and of itself

On Dialogue: Notes from the estuary

I am not the first person to be captivated by the Dyfi Estuary, but perhaps(!?) I am the first interfaith practitioner to sit here and wonder what this place might tell me about my own practice.

Reflections on the FoRB Ministerial: 3 Education, The Missing Dimension of FoRB

The next step needs to focus on the framework around which those with experience of exploring questions of religion and belief in classrooms are drawn into FoRB discussions and to explore what approaches work best.

Reflections on the FoRB Ministerial: 2. And Interfaith?

For interfaith to be effectively utilised in the promotion and protection of FoRB will require the mobilisation of approaches which will necessitate a greater willingness for risk from those commissioning work.

Reflections on the FoRB Ministerial: 1. Where was religion?

If we are not as attentive to the ways in which communities and individuals live out their faiths and beliefs as we are to the way in which they might experience persecution, what opportunities and issues might we miss?

Religious Literacy and Interfaith Calendars

Whether in educational settings, in the workplace, or even in foreign policy settings and institutions, the idea that outcomes could be improved through the embedding of religious literacy is a tantalizing prospect.

Interfaith, and the stories we tell in eulogies

Maybe we should be focussing on is how to ask better questions so that we can hear the stories of those who, for whatever reason, do not know how to speak their stories themselves.

Intersections, Accommodations and Tensions in Interfaith and FoRB

This tension, between practices of FoRB which seek accommodation with other Rights and practices which work in the intersections, is reflective of the tension which I as an interfaith professional grapple with all the time.