Interfaith Council

The student-led Interfaith Council serves as the umbrella group for all student religious organizations, representing their interests and advocating for them, and planning events of interest to students of all faith backgrounds (or none). The Interfaith Council is a group of 24 students who are chosen (by their peers) to represent the many traditions of spiritual belief and practice that have groups functioning at USC.   Meetings are held weekly in the University Religious Center on Tuesday evenings.  During the fall, the emphasis is on programming, and in the spring semester, the focus moves to interfaith dialogue and discussion. These discussions include topics such as “What kinds of things do we share in common with people of other faiths? What exactly is religious pluralism? What happens if we find we want to date someone from another faith?”

Programming includes collaboration with the Office of Religious Life for the annual Multi-Faith Celebration and the Religion on Campus week; and “immersion events,” in which two groups from different places on the religious spectrum visit one another’s events or religious rituals, inviting discussion and questions. Student leader for the 2008-09 year is Steven Philp