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A Different Kind of Conversation Curriculum

This curriculum provides a very simple way for you to introduce a different kind of conversation about religion into the world.  Using stories of interfaith cooperation and questions for reflection, the curriculum helps you to explore your lived experience of pluralism and religious identity.  Equipped with these stories you will be able to share with others how religion and interreligious cooperation can be catalysts for positive action in the world.   This curriculum is a good tool for: 

  • Young professionals and adults who are interested in helping to build interfaith cooperation and want an accessible way to do so.
  • Youth ministers, chaplains, pastors, imams, rabbis, etc. to introduce simple and concrete ways to work for pluralism.

Read the Faith Heroes Extended Bios

 

Acts of Faith Discussion Guide

This discussion guide explores the themes of identity, community, and common action in Eboo Patel's  memoir, Acts of Faith.  The discussion guide is an ideal tool for:

  • Young professionals and adults who are interested in the interfaith youth movement and want to hold book discussions in their religious community or home.
  • Youth ministers, chaplains, pastors, imams, rabbis, etc. to introduce the concept of religious identity and pluralism to their respective communities, in general, and to their youth, specifically.
  • Youth interfaith student leaders to diversify the activities their group does during their meetings and dialogues.
  • Teachers and professors to incorporate a contemporary example of pluralism and the serch for identity in modern America into their curriculum


Building the Interfaith Youth Movement: Beyond Dialogue to Action edited by Eboo Patel and Patrice Brodeur

This book is a comprehensive profile of the emergent interfiath youth movement including descriptions of various interfaith youth programs across the country, the theory behind the movement, and the methodology that sustains the programs.  This book is an ideal tool for:

  • Young professionals and adults who are interested in the interfaith youth movement and would like to hold a book discussion group in their religious community or home.
  • Youth ministers, chaplains, pastors, imams, rabbis, etc. to introduce the concept of religious identity and pluralism to their respective communities
  • Interfaith youth leaders who want to diversify the activities their group does during their meetings or dialogues.

 

The Days of Interfaith Youth Service (DIYS) Toolkit & Quick Start Toolkit

Every year, thousands of youth gather in their respective communities and participate in a day of service with other religiously diverse youth.  The DIYS Toolkit gives you valuable tools for planning, organizing, and hosting a DIYS in your community.

  • This toolkit is essential for anyone wanting to host a DIYS event including youth leaders, youth ministers, chaplains, campus ministers, teachers, professors, and youth focused institutions.

 

Guide Sacred Stories Curriculum

This curriculum gives you the opportunity to explore shared values between different religious traditions by listening to the stories of three religiously diverse young people.  This curriculum is currently in development.  Please return to the site for updates!

 

Storytelling Curriculum

Storytelling is not only and essential element in IFYC's methodology but it is also an essential element of a person's identity.  This curriculum assists you in discovering and crafting your own unique and compelling faith story.
This curriculum is currently in development.  Please return to the site for updates!

 

Resources

OET Brochure

Facilitator's Guidelines

Safe Space Guidelines

Scriptures on the Shared Value of Service

Roles of Seminaries in Interfaith Work

Address to the Heads of Independent Schools

 

This I Believe Speech