Our interfaith dialog group has openly addressed Greg's question a number of times.
I have been in a situation where I felt some participants in a dialog group wanted to show that we Christians and Muslims were basically the same. Neither I nor the Muslims in our group wanted to go down that road. It isn't fun to be "evangelized" in a dialog group; it made me feel unsafe.
We do urge everyone to represent their religion deeply and well. Our group dialogues have led me to dig more deeply into our tradition and find ways to express it in understandable language. This has really helped me grow!
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Our interfaith dialog group has openly addressed Greg's question a number of times.
I have been in a situation where I felt some participants in a dialog group wanted to show that we Christians and Muslims were basically the same. Neither I nor the Muslims in our group wanted to go down that road. It isn't fun to be "evangelized" in a dialog group; it made me feel unsafe.
We do urge everyone to represent their religion deeply and well. Our group dialogues have led me to dig more deeply into our tradition and find ways to express it in understandable language. This has really helped me grow!