With the Best of Intentions: Interreligious Missteps and Mistakes Publishers Newsletter - May 2025

With the Best of Intentions: Interreligious Missteps and Mistakes Publishers Newsletter - May 2025Catholic Media Association Award Winner First Place Ecumenism or Interfaith Relations "Especially useful reading for people considering, or new to, working in interreligious settings or engaging interfaith dialogue." Daniel F. Polish, in Journal of Ecumenical Studies If we learn by mistakes, this book teaches us the basics about interreligious relationships. Pim Valkenberg, The Catholic University of America A uniquely significant collection as

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Although this book does not set out to dispense with the notion of Original Sin it makes a com­pelling case for a different starting point: our fundamental goodness rather than our flawed sinful condition

It is not the language we speak or the color of our skin that divides us

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