Interfaith & Interspiritual | Rev Laura Nugent

Interfaith & Interspiritual?

Interfaith

Interfaith seeks to promote understanding, harmony and peaceful coexistence among adherents of various religious traditions. Through dialogue, service, and collaboration, interfaith practices cultivate mutual respect and learning while recognizing and honoring distinct religious identities.

Focus: Building dialogue and understanding between established religious traditions.

Approach: Structured, often formal dialogues and collaborations between different religious communities.

Goal: Promote harmony, respect, collaboration, and learning between distinct religious traditions and identities.

Interspiritual

Interspirituality seeks the universal, unifying threads across spiritual traditions that transcend religious identity. Interspirituality affirms the global interconnection and interdependence of all life and aims to harness the wisdom of the sacred in all its manifestations as a resource to foster personal and collective transformation.

Focus: Fostering personal and collective transformation through a unifying spiritual path.

Approach: Individual, eclectic spiritual practices that draw from multiple spiritual traditions.

Goal: Explore the unifying threads of all spiritual traditions to foster personal spiritual growth and affirm our collective interconnectedness.

One Spirit Learning Alliance

While interspirituality and interfaith overlap, One Spirit (the seminary I was ordained)

is an interspiritual organization committed to meeting the increasing need for a universal, mystical spiritual path.

By grounding our students in the interspiritual perspective and nurturing

the development of their inner lives and service in the world,

we seek to fulfill our part in the great adventure of transformation

unfolding in our world today.

Interfaith & Interspiritual?

Interfaith

Interspiritual

One Spirit Learning Alliance

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