Annually our church shares a weekend of interfaith dialogue with the congregation of a local synagogue. Today was the dialogue between our pastor and the rabbi and, as always, it was thought provoking. I thought the quote on the cover of the bulletin by Jonathan Sacks from The Dignity of Difference was worth sharing:
"So it is with faith. If we cherish our own, then we will understand the value of others. We may regard ours as a diamond and another faith as a ruby, but we know that both are precious stones. But if faith is a mere burden, not only will we not value ours, neither will we value the faith of someone else. We will see both as equally useless. True tolerance comes not from the absence of faith but from its living presence. Understanding the particularity of what matters to us is the best way of coming to appreciate what matters to others."
