What are the Dinner Dialogues exactly?
Once a year on a set evening the East Texas Amazing Faiths Project hosts an evening of dinner dialogues in the East Texas area. From 6:30-9:30 pm, people gather in small groups in private homes to have a meal together and share from their lives about faith, religious diversity and common human values. The dialogue is highly structured and directed providing a “safe space” to share and communicate about your faith and spirituality. The purpose of the dinner dialogues is to build relationships with your neighbors who may be of a different faith than your own as a way to promote peace, tolerance, understanding and respect in our world. • How does it work? Dinner guests register themselves on the web to be placed into a host home for the evening of the dialogue. Hosts volunteer to provide their homes as meeting places for the night of the dialogue, and to provide a simple, nutritious meal for themselves and the guests. During the meal and conversation, dialogue participants listen to each
