Finding a Faithful Way: Respectful Presence in Interfaith Celebration and Prayer

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-moment-of-silence-0114-20110113,0,6485737.full.story, accessed January 15, 2011.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-mosque-debate-20110114,0,846115.story, accessed January 15, 2011.

The paper Respectful Presence and an accompanying study guide are available online: http://www.pcusa.org/resource/respectful-presence-document-study-guide/. Accessed Jan. 15, 2011. Subsequent citations of the paper refer to page numbers in this version of the document.

Respectful Presence, 17.

The task group consisted of James G. Kirk (chair), Melva Wilson Costen, Vin A. Harwell, John A. Hutchison, and Charles R. White, with staff assistance from Carla Libby Gentry (Worldwide Ministries Division), Joseph D. Small (Congregational Ministries Division), and Margaret O. Thomas (Worldwide Ministries Division).

Ibid. The results of the Bangalore event were published as “Findings of an Exploratory Consultation on Interreligious Prayer.”

Personal correspondence with Margaret O. Thomas, January 10, 2011.

Ibid.

Respectful Presence, 5.

Respectful Presence, 8.

Ibid.

Respectful Presence, 10.

Respectful Presence, 13.

Respectful Presence, 14.

I am grateful to Jay Rock, recently retired interfaith coordinator for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), for spurring my reflection about these questions.

General Assembly Minutes, 1987, Part 1, pp. 452–453, as cited in Respectful Presence, 8.

Respectful Presence, 14.

I am indebted to Margaret O. Thomas for this observation and proposal.

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Book of Occasional Services (Louisville, KY: Geneva Press, 1993), 287.

http://worldinterfaithharmonyweek.com. Accessed Jan. 15, 2011.

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David Gambrell

David Gambrell is an associate for worship in the Office of Theology and Worship of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a candidate for the PhD in liturgical studies at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.