Bud Heckman 
Interactive Faith [EPUB ebook] 
The Essential Interreligious Community-Building Handbook

Foreword by Rev. Dirk Ficca xi
Acknowledgments xv

INTRODUCTION
Interfaith Dialogue: What Is It and Why Is It Important? 1

PART I
Creating Interreligious Community through Dialogue
1. Dialogue through Conversation—Spoken Dialogue 23
by Rev. Dr. Francis Tiso
2. Dialogue through Arts—’Opening the World’s Door’ 43
by Abby Stamelman Hocky, MSW, Rev. Susan Teegen-Case, and Rabbi Carol Harris-Shapiro
3. Dialogue through Observation and Participation— Interfaith Prayer Services 77
by Rev. Dr. Clark Lobenstine

PART II
Living Interreligious Dialogue through Service and Advocacy
4. Action through Service—From Shared Values to Common Action 111
by Dr. Eboo Patel, April Kunze, and Noah Silverman
5. Action through Advocacy: Many Faiths, Common Purpose 139
by Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy

PART III
Interfaith Resources
6. Brief Overview of Faith Traditions 157
7. Interfaith Organizations and the Web 191
8. Suggestions for Other Resources 215

Appendix A
A Taxonomy of Interfaith
by Bud Heckman 223
Appendix B
A Closer Look at Swidler’s “Dialogue Decalogue”
by Rev. Dr. Francis Tiso 231
Appendix C
A Formal Model: The West Coast Dialogue of Catholics and Muslims
by Rev. Dr. Francis Tiso 241

Notes 253
About the Contributors 257
About Religions for Peace 261
Index 263

Rev. Susan Teegen-Case is the founder and director of the Arts & Spirituality Center, an organization comprised of both artists and spiritual leaders that focuses on the interplay of artistic and spiritual avenues as a path to healing. Her experiences as an interfaith chaplain helped shape her theories about the power of creative expression to fuel nonviolence and community revitalization.