How it works

SR participants usually select a theme such as justice, law or worship; a particular figure such as Abraham, Jonah, or Mary; or a story through which to enter the scriptures. The practice has been developing for over fifteen years in an academic context and has its roots in the meeting of Jewish text scholars and philosophers who were later joined by Christians and Muslims, inspired by what they learned from the practice of co-reading and who found that study together across the Abrahamic traditions allows for surprising moments of encounter and generates valuable new resources for meeting our contemporary challenges.

Over the past three years Scriptural Reasoning has been developing as a civic practice outside the academy with groups of Muslims, Christians and Jews meeting to read the scriptures that lie at the core of their tradition and to explore together the possibilities they unearth for the transformation and repair of society.

www.scripturalreasoning.org

We are collaborating with The Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme and the Three Faiths Forum to create a new website for the Society of Scriptural Reasoning in the UK.

You can register your interest here