Acclaimed author Heidi Hart considers the challenges of interfaith marriage and community bridge-building. Living on the threshold between two very different religious traditions, she finds herself continually negotiating those differences with extended family and friends as well as in her own marriage. She is coming to understand relationship not as socially prescribed convention but as creative ground, a space for each person to speak truth, however tentatively at first, and to become more open to the other. She will discuss the Quaker testimonies of integrity and peacemaking, which may seem to conflict but which can combine in a dance of reconciliation.

Heidi Hart