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The Dialogue Institute invites conversation on intercultural exploration and the celebration of differences.

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Upcoming Events on History and Religion Teaching for K-12 Educators

This October, the Dialogue Institute is bringing educators together for a series of K-12 events designed to spark connection and meaningful conversation. Registration is open now!

Journal, JES, reconciliation, dialogue, interfaith dialogue

Featured J.E.S. Author: Russell Johnson on The Next Word: Tutu and Bakhtin on Dialogical Disagreement

Journal, JES, reconciliation, dialogue, interfaith dialogue

JES, interreligious, dialogue, religion and race

Featured J.E.S. Author: Marianne Moyaert on the Role of Race in Interreligious Dialogue

JES, interreligious, dialogue, religion and race

Call For Papers: Religious Pluralism, Freedom, and the Founding of the Nation

JES, friendship, peacebuilding, interreligious

Featured JES Author: Zulunungsang Lemtur's "Ao (Naga) Tribal People’s Practice of Aksü as Friendship"

JES, friendship, peacebuilding, interreligious

Danyar M. Ali, Philadelphia, Sulaymaniyah, Bridge building, Islam, Quaker, SUSI

Interfaith Bridges From Penn’s Philadelphia to Sheikh’s Sulaymaniyah by Danyar M. Ali

Danyar M. Ali, Philadelphia, Sulaymaniyah, Bridge building, Islam, Quaker, SUSI

Book Reviews

2024 Book Review Roundup: Journal of Ecumenical Studies

Book Reviews

JES, Featured, Ryan Donoghue, Journal

Featured J.E.S. Author: Ryan Donoghue's "To Talk Jesus Is to Talk Politics: The Protestant Church and Resistance in East Germany"

JES, Featured, Ryan Donoghue, Journal

interfaith theology, interfaith dialogue, dialogue, diversity, SUSI

The Significance of Interfaith Dialogue in the Contemporary World by Danyar M. Ali

interfaith theology, interfaith dialogue, dialogue, diversity, SUSI

JES, Christianity, Raimundo César Barreto, Jr., Featured, ecumenism

Featured J.E.S. Author: Raimundo César Barreto, Jr. on "José Míguez Bonino and the Third-World Challenge to the Ecumenical Movement"

JES, Christianity, Raimundo César Barreto, Jr., Featured, ecumenism

John Esposito, Overcoming Orientalism

Book Review: Overcoming Orientalism - Essays In Honor of John L. Esposito

John Esposito, Overcoming Orientalism

JES, Christianity, Africa, African Christianity, spirituality, Gisela Uzukwu

Featured JES Author: Rev. Dr. Gisela Uzukwu on "Crisis of Faith: Today's African Christians and Mami-Wata"

JES, Christianity, Africa, African Christianity, spirituality, Gisela Uzukwu

Book Review: The People in the Room: Rabbis, Nuns, Pastors, Popes, and Presidents - Sir James Rudin

Featured JES Author: Netta Schramm on "A Dialogue of Difference"

art, dialogue, Temple University, Rome, Italy

UNESCO Art Camp and Dialogue 2024 at Temple University Rome

art, dialogue, Temple University, Rome, Italy

Dialogue Institute Staff

Exciting Projects Under Way and Opportunities Await in 2024

Dialogue Institute Staff

JES, Book Reviews, ecumenism, interfaith theology, dialogue

2023 Book Review Roundup: Journal of Ecumenical Studies

JES, Book Reviews, ecumenism, interfaith theology, dialogue

So Jung Kim, JES, spirituality, Korea, religious identity

Featured JES Author: So Jung Kim on "Speaking In-Between: Vernacular Spirituality of a Woman in Late Chosǒn Korea"

So Jung Kim, JES, spirituality, Korea, religious identity

Effiong Udo, democracy, dialogue, Africa, JES

Featured JES Author: Effiong Joseph Udo on Dialogue and Democracy in Africa

Effiong Udo, democracy, dialogue, Africa, JES

Samaa Hossam, Sky, SUSI, 2023

A SUSI Reflection By Samaa Hossam (Sky)

Samaa Hossam, Sky, SUSI, 2023

SUSI, Omar Namiq, 2023, Pennsylvania

Attending Quakers Worship Day by Omar Namiq

SUSI, Omar Namiq, 2023, Pennsylvania

SUSI, democracy, identity

We The People by Ricky Adityanto

SUSI, democracy, identity

JES, dialogue, Germany

Featured JES Author: Robert B. Slocum on Bonhoeffer’s Theology of Resistance

JES, dialogue, Germany

SUSI, dialogue, diversity, individuality, Indonesia

A SUSI Summer 2022 Reflection: Ricky Adityanto

SUSI, dialogue, diversity, individuality, Indonesia

SUSI, diversity, India, individuality, dialogue

A SUSI 2022 Alumni Story: Arshad Khan

SUSI, diversity, India, individuality, dialogue

SUSI, Egypt, dialogue, individuality, diversity

A SUSI 2018 Alumni Story: Amira AbdelTawab

SUSI, Egypt, dialogue, individuality, diversity

Gabrielle Thomas, ecumenism, receptive ecumenism, Methodist

Featured JES Author: Gabrielle Thomas on Receptive Ecumenism

Gabrielle Thomas, ecumenism, receptive ecumenism, Methodist

Black-Jewish, dialogue, religion and race, JES

Book Review: Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue

Black-Jewish, dialogue, religion and race, JES

SUSI

SUSI Summer 2022 Religious Freedom and Pluralism in the United States

SUSI

Ellen Charry, Paul Van Buren, Christians and Jews, interfaith theology, JES

Featured JES Author: Ellen Charry on Van Buren's Theology of Jewish-Christian Reality

Ellen Charry, Paul Van Buren, Christians and Jews, interfaith theology, JES

Featured J.E.S. Spotlight

Featured

Sep 23, 2025

Featured J.E.S. Author: Russell Johnson on The Next Word: Tutu and Bakhtin on Dialogical Disagreement

Sep 23, 2025

Jul 3, 2025

Featured J.E.S. Author: Marianne Moyaert on the Role of Race in Interreligious Dialogue

Jul 3, 2025

Apr 24, 2025

Featured JES Author: Zulunungsang Lemtur's "Ao (Naga) Tribal People’s Practice of Aksü as Friendship"

Apr 24, 2025

SUSI Spotlight

Diablogue

Feb 25, 2025

Danyar M. Ali, Philadelphia, Sulaymaniyah, Bridge building, Islam, Quaker, SUSI

Interfaith Bridges From Penn’s Philadelphia to Sheikh’s Sulaymaniyah by Danyar M. Ali

Feb 25, 2025

Danyar M. Ali, Philadelphia, Sulaymaniyah, Bridge building, Islam, Quaker, SUSI

Feb 25, 2025

Danyar M. Ali, Philadelphia, Sulaymaniyah, Bridge building, Islam, Quaker, SUSI

Oct 2, 2024

interfaith theology, interfaith dialogue, dialogue, diversity, SUSI

The Significance of Interfaith Dialogue in the Contemporary World by Danyar M. Ali

Oct 2, 2024

interfaith theology, interfaith dialogue, dialogue, diversity, SUSI

Oct 2, 2024

interfaith theology, interfaith dialogue, dialogue, diversity, SUSI

Aug 21, 2023

Samaa Hossam, Sky, SUSI, 2023

A SUSI Reflection By Samaa Hossam (Sky)

Aug 21, 2023

Samaa Hossam, Sky, SUSI, 2023

Aug 21, 2023

Samaa Hossam, Sky, SUSI, 2023

Jul 14, 2023

SUSI, Omar Namiq, 2023, Pennsylvania

Attending Quakers Worship Day by Omar Namiq

Jul 14, 2023

SUSI, Omar Namiq, 2023, Pennsylvania

Jul 14, 2023

SUSI, Omar Namiq, 2023, Pennsylvania

May 9, 2023

SUSI, democracy, identity

We The People by Ricky Adityanto

May 9, 2023

SUSI, democracy, identity

May 9, 2023

SUSI, democracy, identity

Apr 17, 2023

SUSI, dialogue, diversity, individuality, Indonesia

A SUSI Summer 2022 Reflection: Ricky Adityanto

Apr 17, 2023

SUSI, dialogue, diversity, individuality, Indonesia

Apr 17, 2023

SUSI, dialogue, diversity, individuality, Indonesia

Feb 6, 2023

SUSI, diversity, India, individuality, dialogue

A SUSI 2022 Alumni Story: Arshad Khan

Feb 6, 2023

SUSI, diversity, India, individuality, dialogue

Feb 6, 2023

SUSI, diversity, India, individuality, dialogue

Jan 23, 2023

SUSI, Egypt, dialogue, individuality, diversity

A SUSI 2018 Alumni Story: Amira AbdelTawab

Jan 23, 2023

SUSI, Egypt, dialogue, individuality, diversity

Jan 23, 2023

SUSI, Egypt, dialogue, individuality, diversity

Oct 3, 2022

SUSI

SUSI Summer 2022 Religious Freedom and Pluralism in the United States

Oct 3, 2022

SUSI

Oct 3, 2022

SUSI

Malahat Veliyeva: A Dialogue Institute Interview

Jul 29, 2022

SUSI, education, Azerbaijan, multicultural, American Studies

Malahat Veliyeva: A Dialogue Institute Interview

Jul 29, 2022

SUSI, education, Azerbaijan, multicultural, American Studies

Jul 29, 2022

SUSI, education, Azerbaijan, multicultural, American Studies

Advocating for Child Protection: Maria Emad

Oct 30, 2020

Maria Emad, SUSI

Advocating for Child Protection: Maria Emad

Oct 30, 2020

Maria Emad, SUSI

Oct 30, 2020

Maria Emad, SUSI

Oct 28, 2020

Irine Kurdadze, SUSI, Podcast

SUSI Podcast Episode #1: Irine Kurdadze

Oct 28, 2020

Irine Kurdadze, SUSI, Podcast

Oct 28, 2020

Irine Kurdadze, SUSI, Podcast

Sep 9, 2020

Kashshaf Ghani, SUSI

Remembering Fondly

Sep 9, 2020

Kashshaf Ghani, SUSI

Sep 9, 2020

Kashshaf Ghani, SUSI

Aug 27, 2020

Lugein Ali Abdullah, SUSI

My SUSI Ride

Aug 27, 2020

Lugein Ali Abdullah, SUSI

Aug 27, 2020

Lugein Ali Abdullah, SUSI

SUSI, Independence Day, and the America that Isn’t (Yet)

Aug 11, 2020

Jerold Jacobs, SUSI

SUSI, Independence Day, and the America that Isn’t (Yet)

Aug 11, 2020

Jerold Jacobs, SUSI

Aug 11, 2020

Jerold Jacobs, SUSI

Aug 3, 2020

Sayge Martin, SUSI

My SUSI Experience

Aug 3, 2020

Sayge Martin, SUSI

Aug 3, 2020

Sayge Martin, SUSI

The Role of Religious Networks during the COVID-19 Crises

Jul 24, 2020

Maria Eugenia Funes, SUSI

The Role of Religious Networks during the COVID-19 Crises

Jul 24, 2020

Maria Eugenia Funes, SUSI

Jul 24, 2020

Maria Eugenia Funes, SUSI

Jul 17, 2020

Alfred Bornea Taboada, SUSI

My SUSI Journey

Jul 17, 2020

Alfred Bornea Taboada, SUSI

Jul 17, 2020

Alfred Bornea Taboada, SUSI

Stuck in the Middle with You: A Dual Perspective

Aug 26, 2019

Stephanie Abboud and Mahmoud Eldronky, SUSI

Stuck in the Middle with You: A Dual Perspective

Aug 26, 2019

Stephanie Abboud and Mahmoud Eldronky, SUSI

Aug 26, 2019

Stephanie Abboud and Mahmoud Eldronky, SUSI

Apr 30, 2019

Omaima, SUSI

My SUSI Experience

Apr 30, 2019

Omaima, SUSI

Apr 30, 2019

Omaima, SUSI

Apr 9, 2019

Christelle Barakat, SUSI

A Dreamy Reality: My SUSI Experience

Apr 9, 2019

Christelle Barakat, SUSI

Apr 9, 2019

Christelle Barakat, SUSI

Mar 11, 2019

Shwan Hussein, SUSI

My SUSI Experience

Mar 11, 2019

Shwan Hussein, SUSI

Mar 11, 2019

Shwan Hussein, SUSI

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Real Stories. Real People. Real Dialogue.

The Dialogue Institute invites conversation on intercultural exploration and the celebration of differences.

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