Gathering the cumulative insight of over sixty years of Dr. Leonard Swidler’s work in interreligious, intercultural dialogue, a new book unpacks the underlying theory and practical methods needed to embrace all of its dimensions: Deep-Dialogue, Critical-Thinking, Emotional-Intelligence and Competitive-Cooperation…

Dr. Ellen Frankel, Dialogue Institute/ Journal of Ecumenical Studies (DI/JES) co- Vice Chairperson of the Board of Directors, was recently honored as a gold medal winner in the Religion category at the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards for her ‘Preface to the Torah’, included in the revolutionary ‘Three Testaments’, the first work to combine the texts of the Torah, the New Testament and the Quran in one collective volume…

The Dialogue Institute of Philadelphia contributed $2,300 to assist the dormant Council on Inter-religious Cooperation in Macedonia resume some of its activities. Having facilitated the creation of the Council beginning in 2002, which consisted of major representatives of five historical churches and religi-ous communities in the recently created country—the Macedonian Orthodox Church, the Islamic Religious Community, the Roman Catholic Church, the United Methodist Church, and the Jewish Community—the leaders of the Dialogue Institute assisted them in periodic meetings for the first five or six years. Gradually, however, meetings of the Council took place more and more infrequently, so that it seemed that its work might cease altogether.