From Deseret News archives:
Program sparks religious chats
It models what civil conversation on different faiths can look like
Not your typical drawing card for college students.
Both men attended faith-sponsored universities and signed on with a program designed to get Latter-day Saints and Evangelical Christians talking to each other, rather than trying to argue about doctrine and "truth" and who is or isn't a Christian.
Glanzer was student body vice president at Brigham Young University back in 2003, and McHenry a student at Colorado Christian University approached him asking for help to get BYU students involved in a dialogue with Evangelical students who had been invited to campus through a little-known program sponsored by BYU's religion department and headed by professor Bob Millet.
Attracting hundreds of students from Christian universities including Biola, Azuza Pacific, Colorado Christian, Wheaton College and Fuller Theological Seminary, the program continues to grow and will expand this spring with visits to Weber State University, Utah State University and BYU-Idaho.
Though still in the planning stages, this fall there are plans for a national conference to facilitate student dialogue on interfaith issues.
The two younger men watched the two veterans in action, and they liked what they saw.
Now, both McHenry and Glanzer have graduated and married. Glanzer served as a groomsman at McHenry's wedding, and McHenry moved to Utah with his wife, where he became a ministry associate for the Rev. Johnson. The couples are now close friends, often attending events at each other's churches and getting together for dinner.
Both agree their differing beliefs simply aren't an issue.
That friendship, and untold others that have begun from the student program at BYU, is exactly what Millet and the Rev. Johnson have been hoping would grow from the seeds they've been planting for several years.
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