. >> sue sdwran -- betraying jesus. >> susan have you found that's a common worry. >> it is. it seems a response to the inter faith world is a continuum anything from oh well it really doesn't matter it's the same god and i don't have a problem with it all the way to i don't know what to do with passages from the bible such as jesus say i'm the way of the truth, the life no one comes to the father except through me. it's right there in our own scriptures. i realize from our own bible, we have these passages that would say that, no, we can not accept another person's religion as equally valid. what do we do with that? are there other ways of looking at that? i started to dig a little deeper into these things and start asking those questions. actually for myself as well. >> yeah, because we weren't trained or ee kwimd in seminary to be -- equipped in seminary to be that engaged in interfaith groups. >> not at that level. >> so you're writing for yourself and your congregation and you found other congregations really appreciated the practice at this cal nature of what the book o

i'm worried that if i accept her religion as valid then i'm betraying jesus. >> susan, have you found in your conversations with many, many people, that's a common worry? >> it is. it seems that response to our interfaith world can go on a continuum, everything from, well, it doesn't matter, it's all the same god, i don't have a problem with it, all the way to i don't know what to do with passages from the bible like jesus saying i'm the only way, the truth and the light. there there in our own scripture. i realize in our own bible, we have these passages that would say that no, we cannot accept another perp's religion as equally -- person's religion as equally valid. that's when i started to dig deeper in to these things, asking the questions, for myself as well. >> we were trained to be that engaged with interfaith groups. a little bit. >> not on that level. >> you were writing it for yourself and your congregation and you found that of course other congregations have appreciated the practical nature of what the book offers. >> i did. even when i was working on my thesis for the doc