Category: BILI
How to be an Interfaith Leader When You’re 19, Still Living with Your Parents, and the World is Ending
My introduction to the world of interfaith work was more of an accident than anything. On a whim, I decided to get involved with religious life during my first few weeks of college. I hadn’t ever he... Read More
Finding Harmony in Chaos
How did I get here? To be completely honest, I got an email asking if I wanted to apply to be a part of the Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI), and I thought to myself, “Literally why no... Read More
Expanding Definitions
Even though I grew up in an interreligious family, “interfaith” was not a term I was familiar with. I was raised Catholic, attending catechism throughout my childhood until I was eventually confir... Read More
Tolerance is Not Enough
When reflecting back on how the Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI) has changed my definition of the word interfaith, I think about my personal evolution with the definition of tolerance.&n... Read More
Developing Dialogue and Defining Hope
What do the phrases “conservative Mormon” and “queer progressive interfaith dialogue” have in common? Me. The former is what I was raised as and the latter has been slowly adde... Read More
What is the point of interfaith work?
Over and over during my time as a Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI) fellow, I found myself asking the question: What is the point of interfaith work? I was not asking out of frustration o... Read More
Bringing BILI Back to Campus
The most important thing that the Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI) taught me is how to facilitate interreligious dialogue. Even intra-religious dialogue, to me, is fairly stressful... Read More
What qualifies as interfaith work, and what are its purposes?
Coming into this year, I had a pretty well-defined idea of interfaith engagement as the coming together of different faith communities in part because of their unique abilities as faith communities. I... Read More