St Ethelburga’s Spectrum

Over the last four years, thousands of people from all the main world faith traditions have participated in activities at the Centre. Their new resource, The Spectrum, launched this week is a way they are sharing their learning.

St Ethelburga's Centre aims to inspire and equip people to practice reconciliation and peace-making in their own communities and lives. One way they do this is to champion effective ways of building relationships between people from different backgrounds across boundaries of faith, tradition and culture.

The "Spectrum" resource is a highly accessible guide and a more comprehensive and interactive online tool. It gives fifteen different ways of bringing people of different faiths together (for example through dialogue, through arts-based activities, through joint action). Its purpose is to:

Illustrate a wide range of activities that we have found helpful
encourage people to be creative in their approach to building inter-religious relationships;
offer pointers to dialogue models and facilitation skills that may be needed;
signpost further resources.

A ‘spectrum’ evokes the image of a rainbow - a symbol of hope in many cultures. There is much to be hopeful about in the way faith communities are beginning to connect, collaborate and come to understand each other.

They offer the Spectrum as a practical guide, not a theoretical treatise. They hope that it will inspire people to see religious diversity as a wonderful feature of the modern world, particularly Britain, and equip them with some simple tools to join with others in exploring it.

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