The Interfaith Alternative

Embracing Spiritual Diversity

Reverend Steven Greenebaum

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New Society Publishers
16 May 2012

Comparative religion

Whatever your spiritual path, chances are that the primary tenets of your faith include universal love, acceptance, and compassion. Yet three thousand years after Moses, twenty-five hundred years after the Buddha, two thousand years after Jesus, and fifteen hundred years after Muhammad, we are still divided by our differences. Religious intolerance, discrimination, even persecution and violence make up the not-so-golden rule.

The Interfaith Alternative shows us how we can celebrate each other without fear of losing our own identity. It illuminates the path to creating a nurturing spiritual community that honors and includes all religious languages—an alternative to Jews worshiping only with Jews, Christians with Christians, and Muslims with Muslims. In doing so, it demonstrates that through coming together in a mutually supportive environment we can concentrate on our shared desire to remake the world into a compassionate, loving place.

At its core, Interfaith is about community and justice. Once we truly embrace diversity, we embrace our common humanity. A powerful antidote to the current climate of fear and mistrust, The Interfaith Alternative argues that it is not how we encounter the sacred, but what we do about it that counts—there are positive alternatives to religious lines in the sand.

Steven Greenebaum is an Interfaith minister whose experiences directing choirs of different faiths and denominations have helped him to understand the profound wisdom of many spiritual traditions. Steven has dedicated his life to working for social and environmental justice. He is the founder of the Living Interfaith Church in Lynnwood, Washington.

By: Reverend Steven Greenebaum
Imprint: New Society Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 231g
ISBN: 9780865717053
ISBN 10: 0865717052
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 16 May 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"How's It Working for You?; The Paradigm of ""Right Belief""; Grappling With Some Eternal Questions; Do We Need the Spiritual in the 21st Century?; Who is Right?; Who is Right? II; Dealing with Some Important Words; ""Right Belief"" vs. Compassionate Action; God In A Box; The Strength of Not Knowing; The Sin of Tolerance; Towards a New Beginning; Respecting our Religious Roots; Pride & Prejudice; Walk a Mile in My Church; Is There Any Belief without ""Right Belief?""; Breaking the Bonds of History; Religion as Language; Interfaith as Faith; A Theology of Interfaith; And Then What Must We Do?; Towards Actions that Count; Building a Spiritual Community; Laying a Strong Foundation; No One Road to Interfaith; Yes, But..."

Reverend Steven Greenebaum is an Interfaith minister with Masters degrees in mythology, music and pastoral studies. His experiences directing Jewish, Methodist, Presbyterian and Interfaith choirs have helped him to understand the profound wisdom of many spiritual traditions. Steven has dedicated his life to working for social and environmental justice though a multitude of forums. He is the founder of the Living Interfaith Church in Lynnwood, Washington.

Reviews for The Interfaith Alternative: Embracing Spiritual Diversity

I'm a devoted Methodist, but I'm also a devoted hiker, and in the latter capacity have noted that many trails will take you to the mountaintop as long as you keep going up. This book is a timely and useful challenge to all people of faith to think about what it means to live in a pluralistic world. -- Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth and The End of NatureThe Interfaith Alternative is a bold call to concrete action and mutual respect for spiritually-minded people from all faith perspectives. I believe embracing the vision of The Interfaith Alternative could bring about a startling new paradigm which might at last nudge us towards our mutual goal of world harmony, beginning one community at a time...right here, right now.---Dilara Hafiz, co-author of The American Muslim Teenager's HandbookThe Interfaith Alternative is a book for those who seek some honesty in religious circles. The our way or no way is no longer an inviting principle. Steven Greenebaum offers an enlightening alternative which is about inclusion and not exclusion. ---Wesley Yamaka, retired United Methodist clergyThis book is both challenging and inviting. It challenges religion's current obsession with orthodoxy (being `right'), and invites our spiritual traditions to reclaim the centrality of `orthopraxy' (acting with compassion to build a world of justice and peace). Steven Greenebaum is Karen Armstrong with a pastor's heart.---John Heagle is a Catholic priest, counselor, and the author of Justice Rising: The Emerging Biblical Vision (Orbis Books, 2011). I'm a devoted Methodist, but I'm also a devoted hiker, and in the latter capacity have noted that many trails will take you to the mountaintop as long as you keep going up. This book is a timely and useful challenge to all people of faith to think about what it means to live in a pluralistic world.-- Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth and The End of NatureThe Interfaith Alternative is a bold call to concrete action and mutual respect for spiritually-minded people from all faith perspectives. I believe embracing the vision of The Interfaith Alternative could bring about a startling new paradigm which might at last nudge us towards our mutual goal of world harmony, beginning one community at a time...right here, right now.---Dilara Hafiz, co-author of The American Muslim Teenager's HandbookThe Interfaith Alternative is a book for those who seek some honesty in religious circles. The Â our way or no way is no longer an inviting principle. Steven Greenebaum offers an enlightening alternative which is about Â inclusion and not Â exclusion. ---Wesley Yamaka, retired United Methodist clergyThis book is both challenging and inviting. It challenges religion's current obsession with orthodoxy (being Â right'), and invites our spiritual traditions to reclaim the centrality of Â orthopraxy' (acting with compassion to build a world of justice and peace). Steven Greenebaum is Karen Armstrong with a pastor's heart.---John Heagle is a Catholic priest, counselor, and the author of Justice Rising: The Emerging Biblical Vision (Orbis Books, 2011).