Jesus and people of other faiths - 5

This is the last in a series of five Lenten addresses given at the City Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Cardiff, focussing on the story in St Matthew's Gospel of the visit of the Magii to the Holy Family at Bethlehem.

The podcast of the address can be found here

The .pdf of the address can be found here

Jesus and people of other faiths - 4

This is the fourth in a series of five Lenten addresses given at the City Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Cardiff, focussing on the story in St Mark's Gospel of Jesus' meeting with the Canaanite (Syro-Phoenician) woman.

The podcast of the address can be found here

The .pdf of the address can be found here

Jesus and people of other faiths - 3

This is the third in a series of five Lenten addresses given at the City Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Cardiff, focussing on the story in St John's Gospel of Jesus' meeting with the woman of Samaria at Jacob's well.

The podcast of the address can be found here

The .pdf of the address can be found here

Jesus and people of other faiths - 2

This is the second in a series of five Lenten addresses given at the City Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Cardiff, focussing on the story in Matthew's Gospel, Chapter Eight of Jesus' encounter with a Roman Centurion.

The podcast of the address can be found here

The .pdf of the address can be found here

Jesus and people of other faiths - 1

This is the first in a series of five Lenten addresses given at the City Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Cardiff, focussing on the story in Mark's Gospel, Chapter Five, of the encounter between Jesus and the demonised man of Gadara.

The podcast of the address can be found here

The .pdf of the address can be found here
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Common Word follow-through

The Archbishop of Canterbury has today issued a very positive and detailed response to the 'Common Word' document issued recently by Muslim scholars, affirming the initiative and the grounds on which further dialogue should be pursued. A .pdf for the document is available for download with the title 'A Common Word for the Common Good'

Interfaith dialogue initiative

The Archbishop of Canterbury has assembled an international and ecumenical group of Christian theologians to discuss ways in which engagement in dialogue between Christians and Muslims might be strengthened. Read about it here

This is response to an historic open letter issued last year by the most comprehensive international group of Muslim Theologians ever to have deliberated together inviting dialogue with Christians on the subject of the great twofold love commandments. This was a follow up to a letter written to Pope Benedict after he had made some contentious remarks in a lecutre about Christinity and Islam a year ago.

A Jordanian website : www.acommonword.com gives an account of the work of the Muslim theologians, and a list of contributors.