Introduction; James L. Fredericks 1. Learning in the Presence of the Other: My Friendship with Sara Lee; Mary C. Boys 2. Michael Signer and the Language of Friendship; John C. Cavadini 3.The Blessing of Sitting Together; Elena Procario-Foley 4. Faith and Friendship; David Burrell 5. Friendship: Cultivating Theological Virtue; Marianne Farina and Massarat Khan 6. Ties that Bind: Interfaith Friend, Interfaith Kin; Rita George-Tvrtkovi? 7. Rasoul, My Friend and Brother; Bradley J. Malkovsky 8. Study and Friendship: Intersections throughout an Academic Life; Francis X. Clooney 9. Jivanmukti, Freedom, and a Cassette Recorder: Friendship beyond Friendship in the Tradition of Advaita Vedanta; Reid B. Locklin 10. Toddlers and Teas: Parenting in a Multireligious World; Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier and Mughda Yeolekar 11. With New Eyes to See: Changing the Perception of Self and Other through Interreligious Friendship; Karen B. Enriquez 12. Masao Abe: A Spiritual Friendship; James L. Fredericks 13. A Friend and Scholar: A Guide on the Way to Understanding Buddhism; Peter C. Phan 14. My Friendship with Rita Gross; Rosemary Radford Ruether 15. Interreligious Friendship: A Path to Conversion for a Catholic Theologian; SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai 16. Interreligious Friendship: Symbiosis of Human Relationship Vis-à-vis Religious Differences - A Christian Encounter with Two African Traditional Religionists; Marinus Chijioke Iwuchukwu Conclusion; Mary Margaret Funk