Throughout the year we offer this opportunity using our homes, our dinner tables and our friendships as a vehicle for improving the climate and culture of our communities. It is the simple gift of sharing a meal together for the sake of filling our hearts and our minds with deeper understanding.

In coming together to share a meal, we tell our stories, laugh, ask questions and see generosity in action. What a good way to deepen our understanding of people from different faith backgrounds and religious traditions, whether Jewish or Hindu, Christian or Muslim, Baha'i or Unitarian Universalist, Buddhist or Unity.

WHO AM I and WHO ARE YOU?
What do we believe and how does it serve us and the world?
What do we share...what do we know?
Where have you been and what have you experienced?
Where does my faith intersect with your truth?
Will you come and share this with me?

The IRT will provide the structure for these informal dinners. We will identify and provide the host home, the group of 5, 6 or 7 people who match up with location and preferred timing. You will receive a phone call with directions and request for dietary requirements. The menu will be simple, but the flavors of the evening (or daytime) will be sweet as well as savory!

The IRT will insure that each will be seated with people from diverse religious backgrounds, and offer leadership for a fruitful discussion.

INTERESTED?
These may be held on an evening or over lunch and an early afternoon.
You may use the link, contact us, to request a simple form. Be sure to give us your name and address. You also may email gbrides@umich.edu or call 734-424-1535 to request the same form. Once receiving it back from you, we will then contact you about joining us for a sacred adventure indining!

Eating together is a sacred event, an occasion for hospitality and a chance to build bridges.

…the eating of a meal is a sacred moment
(Jewish)
…divine grace comes in the form of food
(Hindu)
…eating together is an expression of hospitality that builds friendship and community (Protestant)
…we eat to stop all evil and to practice good
(Buddhist)
…the Lord is recognized in the breaking of the bread
(Catholic)
…the best and most blessed of foods is the food that many hands are involved in eating from (Muslim)
…to share food is to share life and to create love
(Unitarian Universalist)
…as we break bread, we honor that of God in each other
(Quaker)
…the food they bestow is the bread of heaven, and the Spirit they impart is God's imperishable blessing
(Baha’i)