Dialogue Guidelines

This is a monitored blog site. Guest blog posts will follow these guidelines:

Length: No more than 300 words.
Tone: While they may hold critique of some kind, views contained in blog posts will be expressed respectfully and positively.
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Deep Dialogue Archive

Deep Dialogue

Welcome to the Deep Dialogue page, where Participants in the Conversation share their views on the importance and nature of interfaith dialogue and related issues, and also post news items. Deep Dialogue recognizes that we can do more together, and do so better, when we provide opportunity to talk about the things that have deepest meaning for us. We believe that our desires to contribute to the well-being of all people come from the place where our values and beliefs reside, not from a superficial desire to get along with others. When we are able to share those things that hold deep meaning for us, we not only promote better understanding but we are also able to better anticipate where and how we can work better together.

Guest blog posts are welcome (send requests to info@interfaithconversation.ca). Please note that views expressed in blog posts written by a Conversation Participant reflect their own views, not those of the Canadian Interfaith Conversation as a whole.

The Rights of Indigenous Peoples

At their meeting of December 1, 2015, Participants in the Canadian Interfaith Conversation held extensive discussion about the Calls to Action included in the report of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The TRC was established in 2008 in response to the impacts of residential schools on Indigenous communities in Canada).

Pepper-spraying in Vancouver

The Canadian Interfaith Conversation (CIC) promotes harmony and spiritual insight among religions and religious communities in Canada (see our Charter Vision) To this end the Conversation strongly condemns the cowardly act of pepper-spraying in Vancouver last Friday. More notable are the efforts of thousands of Canadians who have opened their homes, hearts and wallets to welcome the new residents to Canada. We applaud these exemplary acts of service, compassion and hope.

None is Too Many Revisited: The Forgotten Yazidis

Many people have asked me what it is that motivates and moves me and why I feel so strongly about the issue of Yazidi refugee sponsorship—why I believe the Jewish community must be focusing on Yazidi sponsorship exclusively. To be clear— the Yazidis are facing genocide. And the world is ignoring it, much like the world ignored what was happening to the Jews during the Shoah—this despite the fact that we are living in an era that allows us to receive photos and news and pleas for help every day.

Conversations avec les chefs de parti fédéraux

La Conversation interreligieuse canadienne a fait parvenir une lettre à chacun des chefs des cinq principaux partis prenant part à l’élection fédérale du 19 octobre. On y demandait ce que chacun d’eux, s’il était élu, avait l’intention de faire dans les six domaines de préoccupation commune, soit :

• L’élimination de la pauvreté au Canada et, plus particulièrement, de la pauvreté infantile à l’échelle mondiale  

Conversations with Federal Party Leaders

The Canadian Interfaith Conversation sent a letter to the leaders of each of the five major parties running in the October 19 federal election. The letter asked what, if elected, the party leader intended to do in relation to six areas of shared concern, including:

• Eradication of poverty in Canada and globally, notably child poverty 

• Global climate change 