Our Shared Sacred Story is a groundbreaking project that brings together teams of scholars and practitioners from diverse religious and spiritual traditions to collaboratively retell their traditions' sacred narratives in ways that speak to contemporary global challenges. Sponsored by the Fetzer Institute, this initiative has engaged contributors from Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Indigenous Spiritualities, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, and Interspirituality. Each tradition assembled a team of academics and practitioners, modeling the scholarly-practitioner dynamic that defines the field of Interreligious Studies. These teams worked together to reinterpret their foundational stories, articulating a larger, collective narrative that acknowledges difference while fostering shared wisdom and connection. The result was a groundbreaking volume that presents these sacred retellings alongside reflections on the challenges and opportunities of interreligious storytelling in a pluralistic world. This 90-minute panel will feature four contributors to the Our Shared Sacred Story volume (Orbis, 2025) who authored sections of the volume. This panel offers a unique opportunity to engage with leading scholars who have reimagined sacred narratives for a pluralistic world, illuminating both the challenges and possibilities of interfaith storytelling in academic, pedagogical, and civic contexts. Each panelist will briefly present their contributions to the volume, discussing their tradition's sacred story, how it has been reinterpreted within the project, the challenges they faced in articulating a shared narrative, and insights gained from engaging with diverse traditions in the project.

Interreligious Dialogue, Religious Education, Theology