My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation

I became thoroughly enthralled with this book. It tells stories of people who encountered those of different faith traditions. Taken through the metaphor of meeting neighbors as in a journey, the reader learns of faith intersections where people have learned to respect and honor neighbors of various faiths even while disagreeing on some things. The stories show meaningful interfaith connections made while acting on personal religious convictions to love God and love neighbor.

This book examines - through the eyes of many essayists - what it means to live in a society where both religion is taken seriously, and valuing religious pluralism is foundational. In the early 21st-century, the line between these two principles fell in the shadow of the 9-11 attack. In the 2020s, it seems, the location of the line may have shifted from earlier in our century, but the basic tension remains deeply relevant in our society. I would encourage all of us to read this book and think of those with whom we are in deep disagreement religiously. How do we work both to preserve respect for religion and for pluralism today with our current divisions. For me, these essays still speak.

Great book to finish up my EFM experience. Fantastic personal stories on people's experiences with their own faith traditions and others. With so many contributors- some stories are naturally better than others, but overall excellent read. I know so many that should - though sadly won't- read this book.

I enjoyed the book I read a lot and I found the book engage me and challenged me. If I had anything to say negative about it I would comment that the writing style could be a little more engaging. But I'd recommend this book is something we all should

Wonderful collection of essays on a variety of world religions.

Very helpful. I love the contrast in thoughts of the writers as they explain their on interfaith feelings and experiences. I learned a lot and understand other faiths better. It is not so much written to teach the details of doctrines and specific beliefs as much as the writers express feelings and understandings as the find common ground and mutual respect for person who belief differently than they.

Every person of faith, all around the world, believes (their) God is love. Yet, even though as children we love and play with all equally, we gradually learn to change as we grow up to hate those different from us. This book gives promise that by seeing what we share in common, and try to build bridges across our chasms, we can find peace. With so many in the World without any faith, should we find strength in bonding with other faithful persons during this life, rather than shunning or hating them for their differences?

The book is stories of interfaith interactions. Many of them are interesting and moving but I also found many of them dated. If you are a Christian with no experience with other faith practitioners or scant knowledge of other faiths, then this book will be very helpful in gaining insight into the many similarities between us. If you have multi-faith experiences then you may not get as much from this book. Because it only focuses on interfaith experiences, there aren’t any about connections between unchurched people which I think is a big miss for our early 21st century world. I also thought it needed younger voices. Too many of the contributions were from 40, 50, 60 years ago. But, as I said, it is a good introduction for Christians who have missed out on interfaith connections or are concerned about reaching out to those of other religious traditions.

Arrived as described

Very good read to lean and understand multiple Faith's.