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The new Interreligious Insight Journal is now available Dear WCF members, We are pleased to let you know that the latest World Congress of Faiths Journal is now available online. Members can log in and read the new journal here: https://www.worldfaiths.org/journal Here's a sneak peak of Alan's editorial celebrating the 90th: https://www.worldfaiths.org/post/congratulations-at-90-interreligious-insight-editorial-alan-race We hope you enjoy this new edition and the ra

The World Congress of Faiths is 90 years old in July and therefore deserves a Celebratory Congratulations. We rightly celebrate significant moments and achievements in life, such as when someone arrives at aged 90 years; the same must be said for movements, organisations and endeavours that seek to make a difference in ways that we think and manage human affairs. The World Congress of Faiths can feel proud of the contributions it has made to the mammoth task of building bridg

Breaking Binaries: A progressive rabbi engages with contemporary issues by Elli Tikvah Sarah (March 2026). 402 pp. Paperback. £15 Breaking Binaries invites readers to go beyond the limitations of the oppositions and impositions that characterise binary modes of thought and practice. Examining Jewish texts, rites, and relationships, the book introduces nuance and complexity to the consideration of contemporary issues, such as gender, Jewish status beyond the Jew/non-Jew binary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6-3LfSyx70 Beyond the Veil: Spiritual and Near-Death Experiences across Faiths Reading Minster Friday 27 March Our speaker, Dr Marianne Rankin, author of An Introduction to Religious and Spiritual Experience, explores what profound spiritual and near-death experiences can teach us across different faith traditions. Drawing on decades of research and personal encounters across cultures – including many years in the Far East – Dr Rankin refl

This article is based on the annual Alister Hardy Memorial Lecture which Marianne gave in 2022, later reproduced in the peer reviewed Journal for the Study of Religious Experience, entitled Is Altruism a Principal Fruit of Spiritual Experience? An Exploration of the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre Archive.1 This was in turn based on her PhD, which considered the fruits of religious and spiritual experiences (RSEs) and altruism.

by Alan Race This edition of Interreligious Insight contains many significant reflections involving inter- religious interest and thereby illustrates the breadth of interreligious concerns that now crowds the fields of interreligious dialogue, theology and practice. In effect, it demonstrates the close relatedness of seemingly different endeavours. Let me offer a word about each. We lead with the insightful account of the conflict in the Middle East – set out with wisdom, pas

His Majesty's Lord Lieutenant of Cumbria, Alexander Scott, recently invited Cumbrian faith leaders to a special Service of Choral Evensong to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the County of Cumbria at Carlisle Cathedral, on Friday 4 October 2024. The leader of BGKT Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada), John Gerrard, represented Buddhism and was accompanied by WCF member Jacquetta Gomes (Bodhicarini Upasika Jayasili). Jacquetta was one of the Founders of the Group in 1991. She also