{"id":76158,"date":"2019-07-18T13:01:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T19:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=76158"},"modified":"2019-07-18T13:01:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T19:01:22","slug":"in-good-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/07\/in-good-faith.html","title":{"rendered":"“In Good Faith”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Another night view of the Cath\u00e9drale Notre-Dame de Paris in somewhat happier days (Wikimedia Commons public domain photograph)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Some good listening from Brigham Young University:<\/p>\n

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Dr. Eboo Patel, Interfaith Youth Core<\/span><\/p>\n

Author and activist Dr. Eboo Patel is nationally and even internationally known for his interfaith work on college campuses as the founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core, but as a young man, religion wasn\u2019t even on his radar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this interview we\u2019ll follow his path back to faith and to interfaith work, and why he feels it\u2019s important enough to devote his life to it. If you\u2019ve ever wondered what interfaith work is or why it should matter to you, please take a listen.<\/span><\/p>\n

The interview is followed by a panel discussion with four Chaplains who serve people of all faiths or no faith, in college, hospice, prison, and a police department, and how they have seen interfaith relationships strengthen people and communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a link\u00a0below to a video of Dr. Patel\u2019s recent address at BYU on the purpose and the history of interfaith work in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n

Click the link to watch\u00a0the video of\u00a0Dr. Eboo Patel speaking on interfaith work at BYU conference.<\/a>\u00a0He is introduced at 21:12\u00a0into the video.<\/span><\/p>\n

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From The Economist<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cLibert\u00e9, egalit\u00e9, la\u00efcit\u00e9:\u00a0<\/span>Western governments are telling Muslim women not to cover up:\u00a0<\/span>State secularism and personal freedom clash over the hijab and the burkini\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cEconomic growth slowed by dramatic global decline in religious freedom:\u00a0Two billion more people live in countries with high restrictions on religious freedom than did so just a decade ago.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m grateful to Matthew Wheeler for calling my attention to this item out of France:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMuslims in Paris show solidarity with Christians over Notre-Dame fire: Sunni and Shia Muslims take part in an interfaith gathering organized by Efesia, a Christian movement working for reconciliation among communities\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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In an age of increasing fragmentation, not only between cultures and civilizations but, sadly, within them, articles like this one seem to me extremely important:<\/p>\n

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\u201cExplainer: what Western civilisation owes to Islamic\u00a0cultures\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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The notion that cultures are plainly separate and distinct, hermetically sealed off from one another, is transparently false, as anybody who actually knows any world history must recognize. \u00a0It\u2019s surprisingly common, though \u2014 and is nicely illustrated in, among other places, the weird charges of \u201ccultural appropriation\u201d that have recently been tossed around by crackpot leftist activists. \u00a0Of course<\/em> cultures \u201cappropriate\u201d each other\u2019s \u201cproducts\u201d \u2014 their words, ideas, foods, clothing, music, art, and so forth. \u00a0They trade. \u00a0They exchange. \u00a0They observe. \u00a0Of course<\/em> they do. \u00a0They always have<\/em>. \u00a0They should<\/em>. \u00a0That\u2019s how they (and we) learn and grow. \u00a0To think otherwise is either ignorance or madness or some combination of the two.<\/p>\n

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