A couple of weeks ago, the office published "Striving Together in Dialogue -- a Muslim-Christian Call to Reflection and Action". This document, also posted on the web [click on title], is available from the World Council of Churches, Office on Interreligious Relations, att.: Ms. Yvette Milosevic, 150 route de Ferney, P.O. Box 2100, 1211 Geneva, e-mail: Yvette Milosevic.

The office is presently preparing for a consultation, involving resource people with a long time involvement with the office, aiming at a revision of the Dialogue guidelines. This consultation should give us an occasion to reflect on the role and changing aspects of interfaith dialogue during the last decades. Such a rethinking is necessary. The concluding contribution in this issue of Current Dialogue is a press feature of the Media Relations Office of the WCC picking up some of the possibilities and challenges of our days in interreligious relations and dialogue.

I hope this issue will be interesting and helpful in our commitment to and work in dialogue.

With the best wishes from the staff of the Office on Interreligious Relations and Dialogue.

Hans Ucko, Editor

Book Review

S. J. Samartha
I Could not Go to Church on Good Friday
A Confession of Faith
Asian Trading Corporation
150 Brigade Road, Bangalore 560 025 India
ISBN 81 -- 7086-2639

Written during a period of sickness and convalescence, these meditations by Stanley Samartha relate the sufferings of Job to the sufferings of Jesus on the Cross, by sending Job’s wife to Church on Good Friday. The narrative is personal, without being sentimental, and theologically imaginative, without being speculative.