Love Will Bring Us Together – Yale Hosts High Profile Christian-Muslim Conference

by Juli Min | July 28, 2008 at 11:55 pm

Yale may enjoy throwing students out just for kicks. But starting tomorrow and continuing till Thursday, the University Divinity School will be welcoming prominent Christian and Muslim scholars and leaders to participate in a series of public sessions to promote peace and understanding between the two religious groups.

Hosted by the Divinity School and sponsored by A Common Word, the conference hopes to "foster better understanding between Islam and the West." A Common Word was founded last October by Muslim scholars and seeks to promote the two religions' common values: love of God and love of neighbor.

From A Common Word's official site:

Without peace and justice between these two religious communities, there can be no meaningful peace in the world. The future of the world depends on peace between Muslims and Christians...The Unity of God, the necessity of love for Him, and the necessity of love of the neighbour is thus the common ground between Islam and Christianity.

60 theologians began meeting this past Friday on Yale's campus, and events open to the public begin Tuesday at 8AM. Schedule of events with keynote speakers after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

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