REXBURG—BYU-Idaho as a university has always been a campus where faith is promoted and nurtured to help students to grow and develop not only academically, but spiritually as well. The Religion Department’s Interfaith Leadership Society is a BYU-Idaho organization that offers students opportunities and practice in developing relations and cooperation with people of all faiths.
Logan Weaver is a BYU-Idaho student and the president of the Interfaith Leadership Society. He attests that the benefits and blessings of understanding and loving individuals of differing faiths can be a value to anyone.
“And interfaith is honestly relevant to everybody, because we’re going to be going out into the workforce or into our communities and we’re going to be interacting with people who have different beliefs about the world,” Weaver says.
Weaver joined the society over two years ago and feels that it has been enormously influential in developing his own faith.
“You're put in a position where you now can really seek and come to know truth, and that’s what it’s come through, is these experiences being able to open my mind to understand more fully the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Plan of Salvation,” he says.
The society's activities include visits to local houses of worship for differing faiths, hearing from guest speakers and enjoying good food.
The society’s opening social for the Winter semester is Wed. evening at 7 p.m. in Taylor room 278. Future meetings are typically held on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month at the same time and venue. They will also announce additional or adapted meeting times at the opening social.
This society is not just for professional communicators, or religious scholars.
“This is a place for anyone who’s just a beginner, someone who’s just like, ‘I really don’t know much about other faiths and I want to start that process.’ I think the main part is just to have that desire,” Weaver says.