I’ve recently accepted the opportunity to coordinate MIT’s awesome interfaith dialogue program: The Addir Fellows. Addir is an ancient Sumerian word that means ‘bridge’.

Here’s my latest Tuesday’s in the Chapel talk where I discuss some of the reasons I’m so excited to promote interfaith dialogue (mp3).

The texts I included:

“All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.”
—Karen Armstrong

“I’’ve always said that we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic.”
—Mother Teresa

“He drew a circle that shut me out-
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle and took him In!”
—Edwin Markham, from the poem “Outwitted”

If I had had more time to dive deeper into this topic, I would have been very interested in exploring the way Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan transcends the paradigms of our categories and promotes a non-dual approach to relationship.