Institute of Interfaith Dialog organized a lecture and panel discussion together with the Center for Faith and Culture, St Thomas University. Fr. Thomas Michel from Georgetown University gave a lecture entitled "Present and Future of Christian-Muslim Relations" on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at University of Saint Thomas, Jones Hall. Fr. Michel began his remarks by underlining the responsibilities of both Muslims and Christians in today's world and said that "Justice, moral values, peace and freedom are inevitable concepts in the society and these two groups constituting the half of the world (Muslims-Christians) should cooperate to build up these fundamental values".

Fr Michel brought seven different snapshots into attention from Prophet Abraham's life to encourage Christian-Muslim collaboration. The other issues he pointed out were refugee problem, opening dialogue centers to promote friendship among people from different faith, peace making efforts, working against the wrong idea that the religion is the source of all the conflicts on the earth, dialogue works among women of different religions and promoting forgiveness among people of different religions for one another due to the past mistakes in history. The most important thing while working on this way he said, the interfaith volunteers should not expect to see the results of their efforts in their lifetime but invest for the future. Keynote speech was followed by a panel discussion in which five panelists answered the questions from audience. The panelists pointed out that Gulen movement is proactive in dialogue efforts and doing phenomenal work. Father Michel also said that Gulen movement stand up for the minorities as well as Christians rights and needs in Turkey in the past.