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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have always struggled with what interfaith work means, in part because I feel as if much of my young adulthood has been focused on intrafaith work: connecting with the Hindu-identified people around...Read More
Over the course of the last year, I have been part of the Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI), a program for interreligious leadership development. It was an opportunity to develop a set of...Read More
As I graduate college, I notice all of the rhetoric surrounding me about how I’m about to “start my life” and venture onto the “next new chapter” of my story. I can’t help but feel the pre...Read More