Perhaps the greatest challenge that those called to bridge must grapple with is how to bridge across lines of power, particularly when one is from a non-dominant group with less influence and security. In this conversation of the (Un)Common Threads series, three long-time bridgers from minority religious communities in Europe and the US will reflect on how they approach the task of engaging across differences—including differences in power—and the potency of and challenges to interfaith bridging to counteract authoritarian populism, which all-too-often seeks to grow support by scapegoating minority groups and/or pitting them against each other.

We will further explore the different contexts of faith in Europe and the US, particularly as an increasingly secular Europe becomes home to greater numbers of religious communities from different parts of the world. How might bridging help advance belonging and co-design an alternative vision of a pluralistic "we"? Can it help counter authoritarian forces that point to differences and demographic change to stoke fears and generate backlash?

Join us in this conversation with Eboo Patel, founder and president of Interfaith America, Samia Hathroubi, doctoral student at the Max Weber Sociology Institute at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and Moshe David HaCohen, rabbi of the Judiska Församlingen in Malmö as well as co-director of Amanah: The Muslim and Jewish Trust and Faith Project with Imam Salahuddin Barakat.