A Muslim-Christian Dialogue

The Religious Freedom Project of Georgetown University's Berkley Center on Religion, Peace, and International Affairs, under the direction of diplomat and scholar Thomas Farr, recently hosted a major conference on challenges to religious freedom at home and abroad. The conference launched a terrific new monograph by Timothy Samuel Shah entitled "Religious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Right." After the conference dinner, I had the pleasure of conducting a public discussion with the eminent Muslim scholar and public intellectual Shaykh Hamza Yusuf. Topics ranged from the nature and basis of human dignity to the relationship between faith and reason. Here is a video of our conversation:

http://vimeo.com/38222995

 

The conference was co-sponsored by the William E. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution of the Witherspoon Institute, under the leadership of Dr. Matthew Franck.