Over the last several months, I’ve corresponded with David Liepert, a Calgary anesthesiologist and father of four. His new book, Me and You: Beyond Belief, Toether: A Path to Peace All Our Faiths Can Share, tells the story of his conversion from Christianity to Islam, and all the insight he gained along the way. He looks deeply into the Bible and the Qur’an and argues: “Our holy books agree: From God’s perspective, we start off the same and become better by doing good and living well.”

And Liepert does not work alone. He is founding director of the Faith of Life Network, which seems to have a mildly progressive approach to “educating, informing and engaging in dialogue within the Muslim community and building bridges with society as a whole, in order to address the negative and inaccurate perceptions of Islam and Muslims.” The key phrase there might be “engaging in dialogue within the Muslim community” — therefore recognizing that Muslims have a big role to play in building bridges with other civic and religious groups.

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