I attended the event at St Ethelburga’s Centre, exploring evangelicals and interfaith. Whilst difficult and complex issues were discussed, the overwhelming sensation I came away with was encouragement at having so many evangelicals in the room who were either wanting to engage in interfaith work or at least prepared to discuss the possibility! I had further reason to be encouraged whilst attending the YLC interfaith conference in Dublin last week. There were 2 evangelicals, 1 post evangelical and 1 used-to-be evangelical. Such a supportive space was created, where we could discuss the difficulties we faced from our own communities for engaging with interfaith and comment on how our faith had been and continued to be impacted by our involvement. It was like balm to my soul! It’s a lonely old world being an evangelical in interfaith – mistrusted by both our own communities and often those in interfaith and to discover within the space of a few weeks that we are not alone was a wonderful feeling! Whilst on the conference we discussed the need to keep supporting each other so I’m delighted at the creation of this blog spot and hope it can become well used. Hurrah for evangelicals and interfaith!
Sarah Hulme, Three Faiths Forum
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