Category: Challenges
Going Beyond the Rhetoric: The Muslim Aid-UMCOR Partnership in Sri Lanka
This paper highlights practical examples of dialogue and collaboration between Muslim Aid and UMCOR showing how different faith communities make natural allies for the promotion and success of cross... Read More
Rage in the Digital Age (pt. 1 of 2)
We’re in a time where a lot of community and dialogue is happening online. The possibilities are endless. You can be talking to someone in Peoria and Beirut, and all be talking about the same thing.... Read More
My Radical Valentine
It has been many weeks between posts for me, but this is not for a lack of topics. So much has taken place just in the few weeks we have called 2011, many such events life-changing for millions of peo... Read More
Come… read my sacred texts as if they were yours…
In an earlier post, I offered a reflection on the types of inter-religious encounters that, although often well intentioned, tend to be reductive and ultimately unhelpful in the development of inter-r... Read More
The Hazards of Following God’s Call: Keep the Hard Hat Close—You’ll Need it
Do you ever feel like you are on the right road, that you are making the right choice, and then, BAM! – you realize, you’re not? Yes, that just happened to me, again. I was hoping for a trav... Read More
Confessions of a Bully
She never saw it coming, and then there was peanut butter everywhere. Her new khaki pants were ruined, the whole classroom burst out laughing, and she didn’t come back to school for the rest of th... Read More
Inter-Religious Dialogue as a Method of Peace-Building in Israel and Palestine
Inter-religious Dialogue is understood as a method of peace-building—bringing people together to learn to live in peace — which is different than peace-making, whereby politicians and diplom... Read More
Bullying: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
In Acts of Faith, Eboo Patel recounts a conversation he had with a Catholic leader who was concerned about the consequences that participation in the Interfaith Youth Core might have for the young peo... Read More