This past summer, a crowd composed largely of aging baby boomers filled the Interfaith Community Church in Seattle to hear three amigos.
Those would be the “Interfaith Amigos,” as they call themselves: Rabbi Ted Falcon of Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue in Seattle, retired pastor Don Mackenzie and Muslim Sufi minister Sheikh Jamal Rahman. Together they wrote “Getting to the Heart of Interfaith: The Eye-Opening, Hope-Filled Friendship of a Pastor, a Rabbi, and a Sheikh.”
This Seattle-area spiritual — and now literary — trio hopes that if people learn about others’ beliefs, they may feel less threatened by them.
“We will survive only if we learn to treat ourselves, our neighbors, and our planet with greater wisdom, compassion and caring,” they write in the introduction.
The clergy will appear Nov. 20 at Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco for a program featuring a Q&A session and a reception.
The event is free, open to the public and sponsored by the S.F.-based Jewish Community Relations Council, San Francisco Interfaith Council and Calvary Presbyterian Church.
