Interfaith Leadership Martin Luther King

I’ve been thinking about how I can utilize interfaith leadership for a ministry of my own, in the near future, which will involve youth and religious diversity. This reading focuses on young people as potential agents of such social change based from a Chicago nonprofit interfaith Youth Core.
It amazed me to learn that Martin Luther King Jr’s, sermon on the Mount focuses with reference to interpersonal relationships, also how King was admired by Gandhi himself, who was influenced by the understanding of Jesus in the Christian Gospels and suggested to King that it could in fact offer a real strategy for resistance and peace building. King marched arm in arm with Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel in Selma, and joined the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat

To achieve this goal we must articulate three characteristics of a community characterized by religious pluralism; (1) Respect for religious and nonreligious identity, (2) mutually inspiring relationships and (3) common action around issues of shared social concern. Positive attitudes, appreciative knowledge, and behaviors that build social capital may be the best proxy to measure the strength of pluralism in a

As stated by Prothero, religious literacy is a fundamentally civic project: what one knows about religion impacts whether one has the vocabulary to follow presidential races, foreign affairs, domestic politics, and civic issues. Thus, he argues, religious literacy should “stick close to the facts,” and explore tradition with an eye to what is most relevant for active engagement in civic life. But if indeed appreciative knowledge plays a part in improving attitudes and behaviors, and we are dealing not just with a lack of knowledge but misinformation, we must work toward the explicitly normative goal of actively cultivation appreciative knowledge. Such knowledge should equip an interfaith leader to create spaces where others can build positive attitudes and relationships and to actively counter stereotypes and misinformation that might hinder interfaith