We live in a time when it is increasingly easy to see people through the lens of what separates us—our faith, politics, culture, or beliefs. Too often, difference becomes distance. Disagreement becomes division. And people become “the others.” But what if difference didn’t have to divide us?

The theme of this year’s conference is “Othering: Building Belonging Across Difference”. It is an invitation to imagine another way—a world where our differences remain, but our shared humanity brings us together.

At the Global Faith Forum 2027, leaders, neighbors, and changemakers from diverse faiths and backgrounds will come together to explore one of the defining challenges of our time: how do we build genuine belonging in the midst of deep difference? Through meaningful conversations, compelling stories, and relationships that cross traditional divides, we’ll explore how faith can help us move beyond fear and suspicion, challenge the instinct to separate into “us” and “them,” and create communities where people are seen, valued, and welcomed.

We don’t have to agree on everything to recognize the dignity in one another. We don’t have to erase our differences to belong. Join us as we move beyond “us and them” and discover what becomes possible when we choose to belong to one another.