Interfaith Resources

• Abrahamic Family Reunion

The Abrahamic Family Reunion (AFR) project offers ways to use psychological and spiritual approaches in reconciling conflicts among Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the United States. AFR emphasizes our shared values of compassion and justice, explores positive historical precedents, and acknowledges collective traumas. By providing resources for organizations in its network, AFR seeks to enhance the possibility of contrition and reconciliation among civil and religious representatives of the three Abrahamic traditions. AFR is a network of organizations bound together by the notion that all peoples seek and deserve dignity.

• American Academy of Religion

Learned society and professional association for scholars whose object of study is religion.

• Andover Newton Theological School

Seminary of Boston that teaches religion in a multifaith context (Christian, Unitarian-Universalism, Jewish, with hopes of a Muslim presence in the near future and becoming an “interfaith university”).

• Auburn Seminary

Seminary of New York City that teaches religion in a multifaith context.

• Boston Theological Institute

The Boston Theological Institute (BTI) is an association of ten university divinity schools, schools of theology and seminaries in the Greater Boston area, registered as a tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization. It is one of the oldest and largest theological consortia in the world. It includes as constitutive members schools representing the full range of Christian churches and confessions and a Rabbinical School as of January 1, 2011. Additionally, persons representing other religious traditions are present in many of our schools. The BTI is not a degree granting institution, but coordinates various administrative, program and academic activities so as to enhance the work of the member schools.

• Boston University School of Theology Religion & Conflict Transformation Program

The Religion and Conflict Transformation program prepares religious leaders to become a resource for peace in a multi-cultural, multi-faith world.

• Change the Story

Huge numbers of Americans profess to having little knowledge of Islam despite the fact that there may be as many as five million Muslims living in the U.S. ChangeTheStory.net offers an interactive experience where users—Muslim and non-Muslim alike—can meet their neighbors, learn about Islam and apply techniques of interfaith dialogue and action to local communities. Our primary audiences are educators, religious leaders and individuals concerned about building bridges of understanding across lines of faith and culture.

• Charter for Compassion

The Charter for Compassion is a document that transcends religious, ideological, and national difference. Supported by leading thinkers from many traditions, the Charter calls on us all to activate the Golden Rule around the world.

• Claremont Lincoln University

Claremont Lincoln University is a degree-granting institution at the center of a new consortium of professional graduate schools for religious education. Under this historic new model, Claremont School of Theology; the Academy for Jewish Religion, California; and the Islamic Center of Southern California will offer professional religious education in their respective traditions.

• Cordoba Initiative

The Cordoba Initiative is a multi-national, multi-faith organization dedicated to breaking the cycle of mistrust, misunderstanding and irrational fear that exists between Islam and many parts of the Western world. Our movement promotes greater understanding and consideration in order to build bridges between Muslims, Jews, Christians and people of goodwill from all cultures and faith traditions.

• Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions

The Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions was created to cultivate harmony among the world’s religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the world and its guiding institutions in order to achieve a just, peaceful and sustainable world.

• Daughters of Abraham

We are Christian, Jewish and Muslim women who have been meeting monthly since 2002 to explore our religious faiths through books. The mission of the Daughters of Abraham is to overcome stereotypes and to foster mutual respect and understanding among Muslim, Jewish and Christian women. Through the discussion, insights and relationships that grow out of regular book group meetings, we hope to: learn about the commonalities and differences found in Islam, Judaism and Christianity; develop an interfaith community of women who can speak intelligently about the Abrahamic faiths.

• Fellowship of Reconciliation

Since 1915, the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) has carried on programs and educational projects concerned with domestic and international peace and justice, nonviolent alternatives to conflict, and the rights of conscience. A nonviolent, interfaith, tax-exempt organization, FOR promotes nonviolence and has members from many religious and ethnic traditions. It is a part of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), which has branches or affiliates in more than 50 countries.

• Global Dialogue Institute

The Dialogue Institute works to transform the world into a global community by fostering interreligious and intercultural scholarship, understanding and cooperation. A nonprofit organization founded at Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) in 1978, the Dialogue Institute trains religious, civic and academic leaders in the skills of critical thinking and respectful dialogue so that they can build sustained relationships across lines of religious and cultural difference. Global and inclusive, the Dialogue Institute provides resources and creates networks of support among all those engaged in interreligious dialogue and action around the world.

• Graduate Theological Union

The Graduate Theological Union is an ecumenical and interreligious crossroads, building bridges among Christian denominations and other faith traditions, and dedicated to educating students for teaching, research, ministry, and service. We seek to achieve our mission in two ways: as a graduate school offering academic programs in a wide range of fields in theology and religious studies, and as the largest partnership of seminaries and graduate schools in the United States. The GTU flourishes as a haven for interdisciplinary religious thought, study, and practice, making a tangible difference for the greatest good – and serving as the place where religion meets the world. Located in Berkeley, California, where the diversity of cultures and faith traditions reflects our own, study at the GTU is intellectually challenging and rich in resources.

• Hartford Seminary

Seminary of Hartford, CT that teaches religion in a multifaith context (Christian, Muslim).

• Hebrew College

Interdenominational Rabbinical School of Boston that teaches religion in a multifaith context (shares campus with Andover Newton Theological School).

• Huffington Post’s “Religion”

The Internet’s Newspaper’s Religion section.

• Interfaith Health Program

The Interfaith Health Program is a diverse community of scholars and practitioners working to impact the health of the public through research, service, and teaching. Our mission is to eliminate disparities and assure access to health services. We build networks and facilitate community health initiatives that honor diverse religious beliefs and practices, justice, and human rights for all people.

• Interfaith Worker Justice

Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) calls upon our religious values in order to educate, organize, and mobilize the religious community in the U.S. on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers.

• Interfaith Youth Core

Brings together young people of different religious and moral traditions for cooperative service and dialogue around shared values.

• The International Center for Religion and Diplomacy

The mission of ICRD is to address identity-based conflicts that exceed the reach of traditional diplomacy by incorporating religion as part of the solution. More often than not, these take the form of ethnic conflict, tribal warfare, or religious hostilities.

• Journal of Inter-religious Dialogue

The Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ is a forum for academic, social, and timely issues affecting religious communities around the world. It is designed to increase the quality and frequency of interchanges between religious groups and their leaders. The Journal seeks to build an inter-religious community of scholars, in which people of different traditions learn from one another and work together for the common good.

• MEJDI – Dual Narrative Tours of Israel and Palestine

MEJDI is a joint Jewish-Arab tour operator that creates custom group tours to Israel, Palestine, Turkey, Jordan, and Egypt. Guided by a mission to provide responsible tour experiences and invest in the communities where we work, we provide clients with access to people and places that traditional tour companies cannot reach. As a result of this unique business model, our clients get to hear different perspectives, participate in new cultural experiences, and go behind closed doors to meet local religious, political, and tribal leaders.

• North American Interfaith Network

The North American Interfaith Network is a non-profit association of interfaith organizations and agencies in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

• My Jewish Learning

For all things Jewish.

• Odyssey Networks

Odyssey Networks is the nation’s largest multi-faith coalition dedicated to promoting tolerance, peace and social justice through the production and distribution of media.

• Patheos

Founded in 2008, Patheos.com is the premier online destination to engage in the global dialogue about religion and spirituality and to explore and experience the world’s beliefs. Patheos is the website of choice for the millions of people looking for credible and balanced information or resources about religion. Patheos brings together the public, academia, and the faith leaders in a single environment, and is the place where people turn on a regular basis for insight into questions, issues, and discussions. Patheos is unlike any other online religious and spiritual site and is designed to serve as a resource for those looking to learn more about different belief systems, as well as participate in productive, moderated discussions on some of today’s most talked about and debated topics.

• PeaceNext

PeaceNext is the official social network for the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions.

• The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life

The Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, launched in 2001, seeks to promote a deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs. The Pew Forum conducts surveys, demographic analyses and other social science research on important aspects of religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world. It also provides a neutral venue for discussions of timely issues through roundtables and briefings.

• The Pluralism Project at Harvard University

Our mission is to help Americans engage with the realities of religious diversity through research, outreach, and the active dissemination of resources.

• Public Conversations Project

The Purpose of PCP is to prevent and transform conflicts driven by deep differences in identity, beliefs, or values.

• Religion Dispatches

Religion Dispatches is a daily online magazine dedicated to the analysis and understanding of religious forces in the world today, highlighting a diversity of progressive voices and aimed at broadening and advancing the public conversation.

• Religions for Peace

Religions for Peace is the largest international coalition of representatives from the world’s great religions dedicated to promoting peace. Respecting religious differences while celebrating our common humanity, Religions for Peace is active on every continent and in some of the most troubled areas of the world, creating multi-religious partnerships to confront our most dire issues: stopping war, ending poverty, and protecting the earth.

• Religious Freedom USA

Protecting religious freedom for all.

• State of Formation

State of Formation is a forum for emerging religious and ethical leaders. Founded by the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue, it is run in partnership with Hebrew College and Andover Newton and in collaboration with the Parliament of the World’s Religions.

• Tikkun

We print articles on social theory, religion/spirituality, social change, contemporary American and global politics and economics, ecology, culture, psychology, and Israel/Palestine.

• Washington Post’s “On Faith”

A Conversation on Religion and Politics.

• Welcome to Shelbyville

Explains why interfaith dialogue is important not only to urban areas with burgeoning populations and ethnicities, but also to rural areas of the US.  Change has come to rural Tennessee. Set against the backdrop of a shaky economy, Welcome to Shelbyville takes an intimate look at a southern town as its residents – whites and African Americans, Latinos and Somalis – grapple with their beliefs, their histories and their evolving ways of life. Welcome to Shelbyville is directed and produced by Kim Snyder and executive produced by BeCause Foundation in association with Active Voice.

• What’s Your Calling?

What’s Your Calling? explores notions of “calling” from both religious and secular perspectives.