Welcoming 2026: A New Year for Interfaith Understanding
As we step into 2026, many of us feel the familiar pull toward reflection—on what we’ve lived through, what we’ve learned, and what we hope to cultivate in the year ahead. For those who care about interfaith understanding, this moment offers a special kind of invitation.
Across traditions, the turning of the year is a time to pause, breathe, and re‑orient ourselves toward what matters. Whether one’s language is prayer, meditation, ritual, or quiet intention, the impulse is the same: to begin again with clarity and compassion.
A Year That Calls Us to Listen More Deeply
Interfaith work has never been about erasing differences. It’s about honoring them—while also recognizing the shared human longings that run beneath every tradition: meaning, connection, justice, mercy, and hope.
In a world that often rewards quick reactions and sharp divisions, choosing to listen across boundaries is a countercultural act. It’s also a profoundly healing one.
Revelation, Reflection, and the Courage to Be Open
This year, our press is honored to share An Afternoon’s Dictation, a book rooted in one person’s experience of receiving a revelation from God and reflecting on it through an interfaith lens. The book doesn’t ask readers to adopt a belief—it invites them into a conversation. A conversation about humility, compassion, and the possibility that the Divine speaks in more ways than any one tradition can contain.
As we enter 2026, that spirit feels especially timely.
What Interfaith Means in a New Year
Interfaith engagement in 2026 might look like:
- Choosing curiosity over certainty
- Asking better questions instead of defending old answers
- Making room for the sacred in someone else’s story
- Recognizing that wisdom is not the property of any single path
- Practicing compassion as a shared spiritual language
These are not small commitments. But they are deeply human ones.
A Blessing for the Year Ahead
May 2026 be a year in which we:
- Listen more generously
- Speak more thoughtfully
- Build bridges where others see walls
- Honor the sacred—however we understand it
- And walk with humility toward a world where understanding is not an exception, but a norm
From all of us at MSI Press, thank you for being part of a community that believes in dialogue, dignity, and the possibility of shared wisdom.
Here’s to a year of deeper connection and courageous compassion.
post prepared with AI assistance (graphic AI generated) and inspired by the #awardwinning #book, An Afternoon's Dictation (Greenebaum).
Book Description/An Afternoon's Dictation:
In 1999 Steven Greenebaum felt he'd hit the wall. Fifty years old, he could not make sense of his life or the world around him. For several months he angrily demanded answers from God, if God were there. One afternoon, an inner voice told him to get a pen and paper and write. Steven then took dictation - three pages, not of commandments but guidance for leading a meaningful life.
An Afternoon's Dictation grapples with, organizes, and deeply explores the revelations Steven received and then studied for over ten years. His sharing is NOT offered as the only possible way to understand it the dictation. It is offered, rather, as a start. The book's sections include deep explorations into "The Call to Interfaith," "The Call to Love One Another," "The Call to Justice," and "The Call to Community." These explorations
are rooted in a crucial part of the dictation that directs us to "Seek truth in the commonality of religions - which are but the languages of speaking to Me."
Thus, An Afternoon's Dictation builds on what unites our diverse spiritual traditions, not what divides us. It shows us a path to respecting our differences while embracing unity of the great callings of our spiritual traditions. An Afternoon's Dictation provides caring guidance forward in these hugely challenging times - if we are open to it.Keywords:
Interfaith, Spiritual Guidance, Divine Wisdom, Spiritual Journey, Religious Unity, Sacred Writing, Faith Exploration, Spiritual Awakening, Meaningful Life, Spiritual Unity, Divine Purpose, Spiritual Revelation, Faith and Purpose, Interfaith Harmony, Life Guidance, Sacred Wisdom, Spiritual Insight, Religious Commonality, Spiritual Seeker, Divine Message, EcumenismBook Review: 5 stars from Literary Titan
"An Afternoon's Dictation: Inclusive Revelation for the 21st Century offers a compelling and transformative narrative that propels us to interrogate our preconceptions about spirituality and espouse inclusivity as a route to mutual understanding. Greenebaum's passion for the subject matter radiates through each chapter, and his appeal for open-mindedness and discourse is both timely and pressing in our interconnected global ecosystem. A must-read, this book will undoubtedly appeal to those yearning to expand their spiritual landscape and nurture a more encompassing perspective on life. ... This thoughtfully constructed work masterfully intertwines the author's personal encounters, philosophical observations, and historical allusions to offer an innovative approach to spirituality that is exceedingly pertinent to the contemporary global scenario."
Awards this book has earnedWinner. London Book FestivalLiterary Titan gold award
Indies Today runner-up
Firebird Book Awards honorable mention
Pacific Book Award finalist (runner-up)The BookFest honorable mentionChanticleer International Book Awards finalist
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