GEORGE CASSIDY PAYNE – If there is a path toward peace in our time, it will not be paved by the erasure of difference, but by the cultivation of understanding across it. Interfaith is not the enemy of orthodoxy. It is its testing ground, its expansion, its flowering. To some, that will always feel like a loss of control. To others, it is the beginning of wisdom, seeing the whole pattern without losing the thread that is one’s own.