Responding to Religious Diversity: Some Possible Directions for the Interfaith Youth Core

The Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) is active on many college and university campuses in North America and throughout the world. Much of the focus of this effective and growing organization is on diverse groups cooperating together on practical projects, in the process coming to understand better the values they share, and in general achieving better mutual understanding. As this movement develops, it may need its own set of religious ideas. This article discusses two ideas that might be both useful to, and appealing to, IFYC: the idea of silence and the idea of curiosity.