Promoting Interfaith Dialogue

In an attempt to transcend disciplinary boundaries and contribute to an improved understanding of diverse values and beliefs, the Religion & Ethics Resource Center sponsors book discussion groups across the university campus.  Our goal is to promote an atmosphere for dialogue in which tolerance, understanding, and the diversity of ideas are honored. Groups may be composed of students, faculty, and staff in any combination. 
Reading groups which foster dialogue across religious traditions are especially encouraged. 

Funding and Support

Students, faculty, and staff who would like to form an R&E book discussion group are welcome to propose a book for adoption.  We encourage you to consider a book that will appeal to people from more than one faith tradition.  After approval, we will purchase copies of the book and see that they are distributed to members of the reading group.   If you need help in filling your group with members, we can publicize the reading group and refer interested people to you.

To propose a book discussion group, simply contact Brian Davis with information about the book you wish to use and the number of copies needed.  You can send this information by e-mail to bdavis@weber.edu or call Brian at 626-7947.

Would you like to join or form a book discussion group?
Contact Brian at bdavis@weber.edu or call 626-7947

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2005-2006 Reading Groups

Defining Moments: Choosing Between Right and Right
by Joseph Badaracco

Leading Quietly: An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing
by Joseph Badaracco

Past Discussion Groups

Living a Life That Matters
by Rabbi Harold Kushner

Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
by Kathleen Norris

Silent No More: Confronting 
America's False Images of Islam
by Paul Findley

Taoist Yoga and Chi Kung
by Eric Steven Yudelove

A History of God: The 4,000 Year Quest
of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
by Karen Armstrong

Business As A Calling: Work and the Examined Life
by Michael Novak

How Good Do We Have to Be?
A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness
by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

Standing for Something
by LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley

Ethics for the New Millennium
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

When Bad Things Happen to Good People
by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

No Greater Love
by Mother Teresa

For the Love of God
edited by Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield

The Essential Gandhi : An Anthology
by Louis Fischer (Editor)

Man's Search for Meaning
by Dr. Viktor E. Frankl

The Dalai Lama's Book of Wisdom
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

The Luminous Web : Essays on Science and Religion
by the Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor

Taoist Yoga and Chi Kung
by Eric Steven Yudelove

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Recommended Books

The Jesus I Never Knew
by Philip Yancey

When Bad Things Happen to Good People
by Rabbi Harold Kushner

Muslim-Christian Relations:
Past, Present, Future (Faith Meets Faith)
by Ovey N. Mohammed