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Article: Open dialogues bring different faiths together.(Neighbor)
- Article from:
- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- July 8, 2002
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Byline: Margery Frisbie
Reading Burt Constable's column about friendships developing between Church of the Incarnation Methodists and a group of Pakistani Muslims from Palatine brought me back to the first ecumenical outreach I knew in Arlington Heights in the 1960s. Little Catholic children still were being told they couldn't go inside Protestant churches. Adults were hesitant to do so.
It was Joan Grisell, disguised as a sweet grandmother type, but truly a forceful, fearless Presbyterian, who encouraged interfaith dialogue. When she read a notice in the Arlington Heights Herald for a seminar to be held at St. James Catholic Church on the renewal ...