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Hindus and Buddhists — have joined
relations are better in some areas than
to battle welfare reform and to support r
others. For example, an interfaith
religious freedom legislation.
group in an outlying region like the
Downriver area or the east side may
not include Jews or other minority
Who talks to whom
religions and thereby focus on a nar-
Areawide interfaith efforts have largely
rower body of concerns.
consisted of paid professionals and cler-
Father Budde illustrated the point
gy speaking among themselves. To
by saying each of the archdiocese's
make the efforts most effective, leaders
parishes are required to have an ecu-
say that interfaith relations must expand
menical council that interacts with
beyond the executive level to include
other religious groups in its neighbor-
more individuals on a regular basis.
hood. On top of that, clergy are often
The more people who are involved
invited to participate in ecumenical
in interfaith relations means there will
councils that cover larger areas like
hopefully be less people who are will-
southeast Michigan, such as the
ing to believe stereotypes," U-M's
Ecumenical Institute or the NCCJ.
Reeves said.
Then, there are more global measures
such as the pope's recent
statement on accountability
and the Holocaust.
"We have relations going
on at all levels," he said.
While the vast interac-
tion is encouraging, at
times the efforts duplicate
or triplicate the amount of
work being done. For
example, instead of one or
two regional interfaith
Thanksgiving celebrations
involving a wide variety of
David Gad-Haif at a prayer service Sunday.
faiths last November, sever-
al different ones took place
that morning.
Perhaps the reason for the fewer
Krichbaum said his organization is
numbers is the lessened urgency for
developing an Interfaith Coordinating
such relations, said Arnold Michlin,
Council that will publish the area's
who helped start both the Muslim-
first community interfaith calendar
Jewish-Christian Trialog and American
this month to list the events of all
Arab and Jewish Friends at NCCJ.
related interfaith groups. Another
With a well-established Jewish state, a
NCCJ program, dubbed Partners in
decline in overt anti-Semitism in the
Service, seeks to bring different
United States and a general feeling of
church, synagogue and mosque pro-
prosperity, fewer people are signing up
grams or youth groups together to
to volunteer for the cause.
work on social action projects.
"I don't think there are many people
And religious coalitions have taken
who are working in this area," Michlin
on moral and political causes.
said. "It is disheartening. There is no
The Religious Leaders Forum, a
eagerness, no intensity, no desire, no
group of the heads of the area's major
drive. I like to say that our religion is a
religions, took its first major stand in
mile wide and an inch thick. We all
1995 when Rabbi Irwin Groner of
belong to a synagogue but we don't get
Congregation Shaarey Zedek joined an
involved in anything.
Episcopal bishop, a Catholic cardinal
"Listen, my contemporaries are
and a Muslim imam in declaring assist-
going and that is sad. But what is sad-
ed suicide immoral. The group later
der is that there are no young people
held a press conference and took a unit-
on fire to take their place," he said.
ed moral position on the general issue
"Prosperity doesn't breed action."
of poverty and social disintegration.
One of the challenges in involving
Their work marks the first time a
more people is the fear that conver-
diverse clergy body has undertaken a
sionary efforts will take place.
public stand on such issues in Michigan.
The fear is reasonable, said David
A statewide political action coalition
Blewett, an ordained Lutheran minis-
— made up of representatives of every
ter who novv heads the Ecumenical
religion, from the Christian Michigan
Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies.
Family Forum to liberal Jews, from
"I see it way too often," said Blewett,
moderate Muslims to mainstream
adding that he has frequently confront-