Interreligious dialogue MP3s

I’m always on the lookout for interesting audio files related to interfaith dialogue and discussion.  Mormon Stories Podcast recently announced that Sunstone has made free all pre-2005 Symposium mp3s. I’ve listed below several presentations relating to interreligious dialogue that might be of interest.  Note: I have not yet had the chance to listen to them, but I intend to post some highlights on a few of them at a future time.

SL03333, Panel. World Religions 101: What Studying Other Faiths Has Taught Me about My Own – speakers: Holly Welker, Brian Birch, Maxine Hanks, Don Lavange, John Dewey Remy, Jana K. Riess – symposium: 2003 Salt Lake Symposium - excerpt: ”Although most world religions emphasize compassion as one of the highest and most God- like attributes humans can acquire, since theterrorist attacks of September 11, religion’s ability to incite violence and intolerance has often been foregrounded, rather than its ability to inspire compassion and love. This panel begins with the premise that the great spiritual traditions have much to offer . . . (Play mp3)

SL85019, Mormonism As a ‘Cult’: The Limits of Lexical Polemics - speakers: Daniel C Peterson, Stephen D Ricks, Doanld A Eagle – symposium: 1985 Salt Lake Symposium (Play mp3)

SL01173, How Powerful Is God?: Process and LDS Theology in Dialogue – speakers: Blake T Ostler, Lorie Winder Stromberg, Dan Wotherspoon – symposium: 2001 Salt Lake Symposium - excerpt: ”Process theology poses many provocative questions for LDS theologians about the nature and power of God, especially about whether God or some other force or power is the metaphysical Ultimate, how God exerts influence in a universe composed entirely of free agents, and what it means to exist in relationship with others. Is God the most powerful force in the world, or is it process, creativity, the . . . (Play mp3)

SL02155, A Calvinist Compares Mormonism and Calvinism - speakers: Mark Hausam, L Rex Sears – symposium: 2002 Salt Lake Symposium There are both striking similarities and large-scale differences between the culture and beliefs of Calvinism, a form of Evangelicalism, and Mormonism—many of which have not been adequately explored. How do these traditions view the importance of covenant in the relationship between God and his people? The importance of family? Work and holiness in Christian life? (Play mp3)

SL94351, The Word of God in the Twenty-First Century - speakers: Karl Sandberg, Scott G Kenney – symposium: 1994 Salt Lake Symposium (Play mp3)

SL85045, Who Speaks for God? Religious Thinkers Examine the Question of Authority - speakers: Jay Ball, Jeffery Silliman, Palmer DePaulis, Eric Silver, Charles Randall Paul – symposium: 1985 Salt Lake Symposium (Play mp3)

SL84017, How God Organized His Church - speakers: Father William Taylor, Keith Frogley – symposium: 1984 Salt Lake Symposium (Play mp3)

SL91024, Today Seven Leagues: Centennial Reflections of the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City – & – Unitarianism: The Gadfly of Moronism - speakers: Bernice M Mooney, Stan Larson, James B Allen – symposium: 1991 Salt Lake Symposium (Play mp3)

SL81005, The Everlasting Gospel in Catholic and Mormon Thought – speakers: Jerome C Stoffel, Allen D Roberts – symposium: 1981 Salt Lake Symposium (Play mp3)

SL03361, Maybe Not So ‘Great and Abominable’ after All: David O McKay’s Coming to Terms with Roman Catholicism - speakers: Gregory A Prince – symposium: 2003 Salt Lake Symposium (Play mp3)

SL04254, Teaching Mormonism in the Catholic Classroom - speakers: Mathew Schmalz, Richard Sherlock – symposium: 2004 Salt Lake Symposium - excerpt: ”While the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been an important part of America’s religious and civic life, it is still fre­quently polemically labeled as a “cult,” dis­tinct and separate from the Christian tradi­tion. This presentation explores issues elicit­ed by teaching about Mormonism as part of a course entitled “Modern Religious Movements” at a Roman Catholic liberal arts college . . . (Play mp3)

SL86630, Ecumenism Revisited: B H Roberts and the World Fellowship of Faiths - speakers: John Sillito, Kathryn McKay – symposium: 1986 Salt Lake Symposium (Play mp3)

SL80029, Among the Mormons: Non-Mormon Religious Leaders Respond to Mormon Theology - speakers: Stephen Sidorak, Jeffrey Silliman, George Nye, Jerome C Stoffel – symposium: 1980 Salt Lake Symposium (Play mp3)

SL87114, The Zoroastrian Connection: Mormon Theology’s Persian Roots - speakers: James Whitehurst, Michael T Walton – symposium: 1987 Salt Lake Symposium (Play mp3)

SL84006, Mormon-Hindu Affinities: The Mystical Common Ground - speakers: Thomas G Rogers, William Mulder – symposium: 1984 Salt Lake Symposium (Play mp3)

SL84016, Mormonism and Judaism: Some Points of Tangency - speakers: Rabbi Eric Silver, Chad Francisco – symposium: 1984 Salt Lake Symposium (Play mp3)

SL03163, The LDS Church and Community of Christ: Clearer Differences, Closer Friends - speakers: William D Russell – symposium: 2003 Salt Lake Symposium - excerpt: ”From the early years of the Reorganized Church under Joseph Smith III until about the 1970s, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints heralded the “differences that persist” between it and the Utah-based Church . . . (Play mp3)

SL03151, Hearing Islam from Others: Hearing Islam from a Muslim - speakers: Tariq Kergaye, J Bonner Ritchie – symposium: 2003 Salt Lake Symposium As all persons of faith recognize, very often what you hear from others about what you believe differs significantly from how your beliefs and faith feel to you. In this post-September 11th time of heightened tensions between the United States (Play mp3)

SL89090, Mormonism And Its Widening Contexts- Or A Discussion Of Christianity And The World Religions: Paths To Dialogue With Islam, Hinduism And Buddhism And . . Would You Believe? – speakers: Karl Sandberg, Larry Shumway – symposium: 1989 Salt Lake Symposium (Play mp3)