Table of Contents
Foreword Joan D. Chittister xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvii
Part I Encountering the Neighbor
1 Entering without Knocking Brian D. McLaren 3
2 Water Carriers Ibrahim Abdul-Matin 7
3 What Would Roy and Alice Do? Irving (Yitz) Greenberg 11
4 The Hijabi Monologues Zeenat Rahman 17
5 Interfaith Incognito: What a Hindu Nun Learned from Evangelical Christians Pravrajika Vrajaprana 20
6 God Is Greater Jennifer Howe Peace 25
7 My Ever-Present Interfaith Interlocutors Sherman A. Jackson 30
8 It Begins with a Text Burton L. Visotzky 36
Part II Viewing Home Anew
9 Trouble Praying Nancy Fuchs Kreimer 45
10 What the Rabbi Taught the Reverend about the Baby Jesus Gregory Mobley 48
11 When I Get to Heaven Rita Nakashima Brock 51
12 An Accidental Dialoguer Judith Plaskow 56
13 A Monk's Gift Arthur Green 62
14 The Prayer God Could Not Answer: A Métis-Aboriginal Encounter Wendy Peterson 68
15 How a Daoist Fire-Walking Ceremony Made Me an Episcopalian Judith Berling 73
Part III Redrawing Our Maps
16 Belief-O-Matic and Me Kecia Ali 83
17 Gambling on Hope: One Shared Faith Roger S. Gottlieb Bill J. Leonard 86
18 "Never Was There a Time…": Crossing Over to Hinduism from Roman Catholicism through the Bhagavad Gita Jeffery D. Long 93
19 Dearly Beloved Janet M. Cooper Nelson 100
20 Why Don't You Just Convert? Paul Raushenbush 106
21 The State of the Heart in Multifaith Relationships Najeeba Syeed-Miller 109
22 "This War of Words and This Tumult of Opinions": The Beginning of a Dialogue with Mormons Richard J. Mouw 112
23 "Oh How You've Spun Me 'Round, Darling" Homayra Ziad 117
24 Theological Goosebumps: A Turning Point in My Interfaith Journey Paul F. Knitter 120
Part IV Unpacking Our Belongings
25 Never Again: A Muslim Visits the Nazi Death Camps Abdullah Antepli 127
26 The Lessons We Learn as Children Ramdas Lamb 131
27 Encountering the Muslim "Other" at Harvard Ali S. Asani 135
28 It's Complicated Mary C. Boys 138
29 What I Learned in Zenica about Forgiveness Rodney L. Petersen 144
30 Learning to See God in Everyone Michael Lerner 149
31 The Ambiguities of Liberation and Oppression: Assuming Responsibility for One's Tradition Anantanand Rambachan 154
32 All My Relations Richard Twiss 159
Part V Stepping across the Line
33 A Christian Confronts a Zen Roan Ruben L. F. Habito 165
34 Double-Edged Daggers Valarie Kaur 172
35 Jesus Appeared to Babaji Charles P. Gibbs 177
36 Under the Bodhi Tree Varum Soni 182
37 How We Pray Daniel A. Berman 185
38 The Canine-Buddhist Dialogue Rodger Kamenetz 188
39 Otherness and Wonder: A Christian Experiences Moksha S. Mark Heim 192
40 What Mast Ram Baba Dropped into My Bowl John Makransky 197
Part VI Finding Fellow Travelers
41 What I Found in the Chapel Zalman Schachter-Shalomi 207
42 If Muhammad Had Not Spoken Samir Selmanovic 211
43 Sewing in Silence Laurie L. Patton 214
44 The Solitude of Contemplative Life: A Buddhist-Benedictine Friendship Judith Simmer-Brown 220
45 Holy Chutzpah: Lessons from William Sloane Coffin Or N. Rose 224
46 Out Beyond: Forging Resistance and Hope through Multireligious Friendship Rebecca Ann Parker in conversation with Ibrahim Farajajé 228
47 Finding Faith on the Road: Where Deep Commitment and Genuine Openness Meet Bradley Hirschfield 234
Part VII Repairing Our Shared World
48 The Heroes IWas Looking For Eboo Patel 243
49 A Community, Not Simply a Coalition Jonah Pesner Hnrmon Hamilton 249
50 Dwelling Together in the Tent of Abraham, Hagar, and Sarah Phyllis Berman Arthur Waskow 252
51 Practicing in the "Temples of Human Experience" Ji Hyang Padma 258
52 The Value of a Peso Miguel A. De La Torre 261
53 A Test of Character Jim Wallis 264
Contributors 267
