Interfaith Focus Week: Connecting through dialogue
November 2025
This Focus Week explores the role of dialogue in interfaith work and how meaningful conversations can deepen understanding across different religions and worldviews.
Bringing together blogs, short films and spotlight content, it highlights how dialogue can support connection, challenge assumptions and enrich learning in RE and beyond.
Key questions explored:
- How can dialogue support understanding between different religions and worldviews?
- What does meaningful interfaith engagement look like in practice?
Short film series
Curiosity, conversation, connection: Jewish and Muslim women in dialogue
This short film explores how friendship and honest conversation can build understanding across different worldviews. Laura Marks and Nighat Qureishi reflect on their experiences as a Jewish woman and a Muslim woman living in London. They share what their traditions have in common, how they navigate differences – including around complex global issues – and why curiosity, listening and empathy matter so much.
Cumberland Lodge: Young voices, big questions and the power of conversation
This short film highlights how Cumberland Lodge brings diverse young people together to think deeply about freedom of religion or belief and how we live well with difference. Using images like the iceberg of identity and a spider’s web of relationships, Cumberland Lodge uses structured conversations to help young people feel understood, challenge assumptions and imagine the kind of world they want to help create.
Humanism in Chaplaincy: Supporting Students through a Humanist Lens
In this video, Jacqueline Watson, a university chaplain, reflects on her Humanist worldview and how it informs her role in supporting students and fostering inclusion on campus. Her story offers an authentic perspective on what dialogue looks like in practice – reminding us that interfaith and belief engagement is not only about faith, but about shared humanity.