{"id":1362,"date":"2022-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:3000\/trust-humility-bravery-a-forum-in-texas-shows-how-interfaith-understanding-is-forged\/"},"modified":"2022-06-21T17:05:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:05:50","slug":"trust-humility-bravery-a-forum-in-texas-shows-how-interfaith-understanding-is-forged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interfaithamerica.org\/article\/trust-humility-bravery-a-forum-in-texas-shows-how-interfaith-understanding-is-forged\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust, Humility, Bravery: A Forum in Texas Shows How Interfaith Understanding is Forged"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n American Civic Life<\/span>\n

Trust, Humility, Bravery: A Forum in Texas Shows How Interfaith Understanding is Forged<\/h1>\n
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Paul Brandeis Raushenbush<\/address>\n <\/div>\n

March 11, 2022<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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KELLER, Texas (RNS) — On Sunday evening (March 6) inside Northwood Church, an evangelical megachurch in a Dallas suburb resembling a tasteful convention center, the sanctuary’s stadium seating was filling up as three clergymen warmed up the crowd with (genuinely funny) jokes.<\/p>\n

Those gathered at Northwood were not, however, evangelicals awaiting the start of an evangelical service. Instead, kippahs, skull caps and hijab adorned the heads of the assembly as Jews and Muslims sat alongside Christians and members of other faiths. The three men at the front engaged in friendly mutual ribbing were Rabbi David Saperstein, Imam Mohammed Magid and Pastor Bob Roberts.<\/p>\n

Together the trio leads the Multi-Faith Neighbors Network<\/a> and had convened the gathering at Northwood for a two-day event kicking off a new effort called the Global Faith Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a time of polarization that’s tearing America apart, the forum aims to bring together prominent voices from Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities to build cooperation between people of different faiths. Sunday night in Texas, the several-hundred participants learned about the possibilities of interfaith and multi-faith peace and how to become interfaith leaders themselves.<\/p>\n

On hand were what can only be called interfaith dignitaries: Saperstein, who served as President Obama’s ambassador for international religious freedom, was joined by his successor, Sam Brownback, and the current ambassador, Rashad Hussain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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