Interfaith Relations Committee
The Interfaith Relations Committee exists to encourage an engagement of Episcopalians with people of other faiths that moves us beyond tolerance, that challenges prejudice and that deepens our faith through hospitality and encounter.
The 2011 census underlined the extent of the diversity within Scotland, particularly in our urban areas, and it is important to build bridges in a culture of fragmentation, where diversity and difference, we are sometimes told, lead only to conflict.
Our experience is that the opposite can be true: that people from the range of faith communities present in Scotland truly welcome and value approaches from other faiths.
A first step is to overcome our ignorance and fear through learning about the living heart of another’s faith, but beyond that, we can move into joint action, and robust conversation about our differences.
Interfaith Relations Committee Members
Rev G Dillon
Convener
Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway
Colleges of Bishops
Rev N Bowry
Member
Rev L Dose
Member
Mr J Sikora
Ms M Yandoli
Rev G Jones
EMU Rep
