Irreplaceable Dialogue

O ur world is filled with dialogue. The word itself is used and misused in multiple ways. Its range stretches from the highly orchestrated dialogue of international affairs to informal conversations between husbands and wives. Indeed, on the highest level of all is our dialogue with God in prayer and in meditation. Somewhere, between dialogue on the level of the world political scene and the personal reflections of a married couple, we find a genre called interreligious dialogue, which has become more and more important in the cultural context of our times.

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