Related Activities
Presented here are other organizations doing SR-related work.
Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding of Sacred Heart University
Established in 1992, the Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding is an educational and research division of Sacred Heart University and is a direct outgrowth of the Second Vatican Council's teachings which encourage interreligious dialogue and understanding.
The Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding of Sacred Heart University seeks to contribute to the creation of a world of greater respect, cooperation and peace by educating Christians and Jews for a dialogue that is based on knowledge and truth about God and one another. The Center promotes scholarship, trains future religious leaders, educates teachers and leaders of parishes and synagogues, and serves as a leader in promoting Christian-Jewish understanding in the United States and throughout the world.
The Center publishes conference proceedings, lectures, monographs, and a semi-annual publication, CCJU Perspective, and maintains a web site filled with a variety of articles pertaining to Christian and Jewish concerns.
The Three Faiths Forum
http://www.sternberg-foundation.co.uk/
The Three Faiths Forum is an interfaith organization that works with members and leaders of the three Abrahamic faiths to promote good relations and understanding. It supports and sponsors groups and gatherings where people of the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish faiths meet and share common interests and experiences while emphasizing the need to respect one another's differences. Connected with St. Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, the Three Faiths Forum offers a variety of educational activities and evenings of discussion centered around the practices of scriptural reasoning.
The Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel (ICCI)
Founded in 1991, ICCI is the best-known and most-respected inter-religious group in Israel. Its mission is to harness the teachings and values of the three monotheistic religions and to transform religion into a source of reconciliation and coexistence. ICCI offers a grss-roots approach, transforming and empowering Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders in local communities. By building relationships in and among these communities, ICCI hopes to address areas of common concern to the people of the three faiths, and move toward peaceful action.
St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Scriptural Reasoning page: http://www.stethelburgas.org/sr.htm
A list of current events at St. Ethelburga's can be found here.
MEETING TENT NOW OPEN!
St Ethelburga's is a unique meeting space in the heart of the City of London devoted to exploring the relationship between faith and conflict by: a) bringing people together to share experience and learning about the role of faith in situations of conflict, and b) developing practical ways of assisting individuals and communities to use their faith to transform situations of conflict.
The wasteland behind St Ethelburga's Centre, derelict since the 1993 bomb, has been transformed into a remarkable space dedicated to the meeting of faiths. A rich programme of events has now started.
HRH The Prince of Wales opened on 4 May 2006 The Tent in the presence of representatives from nine faiths. Messages of support came from President Clinton, Bono, Edgar Bronfman and Archbishop Tutu.
The Tent is an atmospheric experimental meeting space where people of different faiths can come together to explore differences, transform conflicts, and to build firm foundations for collaboration. The programme includes inter-faith dialogue and discussion, analysis of sacred scripture, devotional gatherings, meditation, storytelling and music.
• Read the Bishop of London's message at the opening of the tent
• Times of London article about opening
• Times of London article on Prince Charles' pleas for religious tolerance
• More information about the Tent
Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference, Villanova University
Villanova University has established a national reputation through its Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference (PMR) for nearly thirty years. The conference has made it a priority to speak to the relationship among the Abrahamic faiths in the premodern Mediterranean world. Plans include at least one explicitly SR medieval session per year as part of the program in the next few years.
The Cambridge Interfaith Programme, Cambridge University
http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/CARTS/CIP.html
Focuses on the core identities of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the contemporary world, approached through their interpretation of scriptures, and their traditions of representation and art. At the heart of the vision of Cambridge Interfaith Programme is the creation in Cambridge and elsewhere of a new collegiality between the Abrahamic faiths.
The Center for Christian Ethics, Baylor University
http://www.baylor.edu/christianethics/
In its Christianity and Islam Library, this site includes the lesson "Reading Together" (PDF file), which offers a way to practice Scriptural Reasoning.
