Dermot Lane is one of the contributors to "A Dialogue of Hope: Critical Thinking for Critical Times". In this interview with Pat Coyle he emphasises the need to develop a new and shared vision of what it means to be human in this world. He is convinced that if believers and non-believers, secularists and religious, were to work on this together they would find much common ground, not least in the call of the 'other' as revealing the relational foundation of our humanity.