The Office seeks to encourage the participation of Presbyterians in interfaith activities locally, nationally and internationally, and to support educational initiatives to enable well-grounded engagement in interfaith conversations, community building efforts and cooperation for social justice.

We aim to help Presbyterians become better able to articulate their faith in everyday relationships with neighbors of other faiths, and to develop the theological grounding we all need to engage with confidence and clarity in interfaith work.

The Office also has a mandate to keep abreast of international developments in interfaith relations, and to help the church clarify how international relationships, tensions and peacemaking efforts affect our interfaith relationships here in the United States.

Staff

The Coordinator for Interfaith Relations is Jay T. Rock, who served from 1987-2003 as a mission co-worker appointed by the PC(USA) to the post of Director for Interfaith Relations at the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA. [Read more]

Karen Hood serves as Senior Administrative Assistant.

A Presbyterian Interfaith Relations Network

Our conviction is that this sort of work cannot be done by a very small staff, but requires a network of people: those who have built relationships and lived with people of different faith and culture; those who can teach others about other faiths or the skills of interfaith engagement; those who can be bridges between faith communities; and those who are simply interested in meeting and understanding their neighbors.

In other words, we welcome you to become part of the “Us” who are doing this work! [Read more]