Nurturing Inter-Spiritual Hearts and Interfaith Minds

Today, we are regularly exposed to a panoply of competing ideas, beliefs, and practices. We no longer live in a time where one fixed perspective provides a foundation flexible enough to make sense of the rapidly changing and highly interdependent world. New, more variegated and integrated forms of religious and cultural expression, both within the existing traditions and beyond them, are emergying as a result of these new life conditions. In response to this diverse context, we need ministers with an interfaith perspective who have a deeply integrated sense of the fundamental "Oneness of human experience" and are informed by the great religious traditions as seen in the light of contemporary knowledge