Higher education institutions are busy addressing faith -- specifically the Reformed/Presbyterian faith tradition -- these days. Next week, Queens University will host "Presbyterian and Pluralist Week" with a line-up of guests including Chris Steadman, author of Faitheist, Abraham Jam (an interfaith band) and others. In addition, the Muslim Student Society has invited Linda Sarsour, co-leader of the Women's March on Washington, to speak next Thursday on being a Muslim woman in America. Last week, Davidson College also hosted a thoughtful symposium on the relationship of the Reformed Tradition to the pursuit of truth.

All are worthy endeavors, because how we think about God, how we see God, matters. It matters for our faith but also for the way we see ourselves, our neighbors, and the way we live our lives in this world. Sallie McFague, who taught at Vanderbilt University's Divinity School, writes, "Everyone has a theological house." Some are fancy, some are plain, some have an open floor plan and others are locked up like a prison, some never change, some renovate by adding or removing rooms. Everyone has a theological house - a theology, a faith, even the atheist.

This weekend at Covenant, we'll explore our theological house more intimately than usual by hosting a conversational sermon with Imam Atif Chaudhry, religious director of the Islamic Society of Greater Charlotte and Muslim Life Coordinator at Queens University. It will be the first of three conversational sermons we'll have with interfaith partners during Lent, and it will definitely help build our theological house.

I hope you'll come with your questions, your thoughts, and your appreciation for the fact that in this diverse world, it is for us as Christians to learn how to engage with those who see the world differently.

I invite your prayers for this series, your forbearance with its limitations, and your support in our faithful effort to grow in faith and understanding.

Come, and bring a friend.