“The need for ‘faith literacy’ in an increasingly religious world”

I couldn’t possibly agree more strongly with this article from the Australian Broadcasting Network:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/religionandethicsreport/the-need-for-faith-literacy-in-an-increasingly-religious-world/6685616

I’ve devoted much of my career to the cause of increasing interreligious understanding — including my conception and founding of BYU’s Islamic Translation Series and the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative as a whole, with which I was affiliated until I was ousted from it about three years ago; my teaching at BYU; two of three lecture CDs; many of my Education Week lectures (including Tuesday through Friday of this week); a fair amount of writing, including my biography of Muhammad and the old book Abraham Divided and the column that Bill Hamblin and I publish every other Saturday in the Deseret News; and more public lectures in more places than I can count.  I’ll also be delivering a paper on this topic in Germany a week from Friday.

I addressed it, too, in the inaugural installment of the Hamblin-Peterson Deseret News column, which I saw as a kind of manifesto or charter for that effort:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700215155/Religion-is-fascinatingly-still-alive.html?pg=all

Posted from Cedar City, Utah