One child’s voyage

 

I’ve posted numerous times about high-level, formal interfaith dialogues initiated by figures as influential as King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and institutions as renowned as Yale University.  There is certainly merit in these meetings of some of the world religions’ foremost authorities, and no doubt the discussions themselves mark progress.

 

However, there is something particularly refreshing about Helena’s Voyage, a children’s book written in English, Hebrew, and Arabic that features a young girl exploring the rather similar teachings of the three Abrahamic faiths.  Her conclusion: “all religions promote the same values, though clothed in different traditions.”  Rooted in each religion’s holy texts, the book promotes the idea that “we are not alone, or exclusive, in our quest to know God.”