Interfaith friendship is key to breaking down barriers of hostility and distrust between Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Bonnie Sue Lewis calls for courageous compassion and creation of “sacred spaces” to welcome others into our lives. Practicing hospitality and an openness to the Other is not only fundamental to all three faith traditions, but enabled only through the God who first welcomed us and by whose grace and mercy we draw strength to love and serve one another. Interfaith friendships begin with making room for God.

Featuring:

Bonnie Sue Lewis, Professor Emerita of Mission and World Christianity at the University of Dubuque

Annalee R. Ward, Director of the Wendt Character Initiative at the University of Dubuque

For more on this topic, read Bonnie Sue Lewis’s article, “Courageous Compassion and Interfaith Friendship,” which appeared in Character and . . . Courageous Compassion, volume 2 of the Wendt Center for Character Education’s annual journal, Character and . . . .

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