Founded in September 1989 by Rev. Jon Mundy and Rev. Diane Berke, Interfaith Fellowship, located in New York City, is an alternative spiritual community of worship, celebration, healing, and service. We offer Worship Services Sunday morning at 11:00am. We draw from the beauty and wisdom of a broad range of faiths, traditions and spiritual paths, and strive as a community to provide a place where everyone can feel welcomed and honored in their own unique search for the Divine.
The heart of Interfaith Fellowship is, most simply, that we come together to share an experience of God. We come from different religious backgrounds. We follow a variety of spiritual paths. Yet we rejoice in the companionship we can feel with each other on this journey home that we share.
"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
George Bernard Shaw
A few years ago one of our affiliate ministers shared a delightful story with us. Shortly after her ordination as an Interfaith minister, her brother was sharing the news with a friend. The friend asked, "What is Interfaith?" "Oh, you know," her brother replied, "Interfaith - One God Fits All."
A Course in Miracles teaches that, while "a universal theology is impossible, . . . a universal experience" - the experience of love, of forgiveness, of God's presence with and within us - "is not only possible but necessary. Similarly, Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan wrote in The Unity of Religious Ideals that if we seek at the level of the intellect, of our beliefs, we will always find what makes us different and divides us. But if we look through the level of the heart, of experience, we can always find what unites us and makes us one.
Interfaith Fellowship is an alternative community of worship, celebration, service, and healing. We are not a new religion. We are not trying to homogenize the world's faith traditions and theologies. We are not a "Course in Miracles church," as some have described us. And we do not seek to replace traditional religious practices and structures for those who feel spiritually nourished by their religious affiliation.
Simply, as a community we seek to facilitate the experience of God's presence and love within us and among us, and to celebrate the peace and joy that experience brings. We emphasize what is universal in the teachings of the world's religions, spiritual paths, and traditions, and we seek to honor the inner search for the sacred in all its forms and expressions. We take as our motto the beautiful Hindu teaching
Our fellowship has been blessed with a remarkable music ministry. We are privileged to be the home of The Interfaith Choir under the direction of Jeff Olmsted.