O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. – The Holy Quran 49:13 I was born and raised in Pakistan, a country pred...Read More
I conducted anthropological research on interfaith couples and marriages in Indonesia in 2010, and have continued to investigate interfaith dialogue practices, religious diversity management and inter...Read More
Seventy years ago, the United States government rounded up approximately 110,000 American citizens and residents of Japanese ancestry and forcibly relocated them to concentration camps along the Pacif...Read More
When it comes to interfaith dialogue and cooperation, it seems that not all faiths are created equal. My community includes a Umatilla/Nez Perce/Sauk & Fox indigenous storyteller and an Ifa pries...Read More
It was raining at dusk. I decided not to ride my bike to the progressive Yom Kippur service on the Boston University campus. If I rode my bike, I would get too thirsty coming home and I wouldn’t ke...Read More
“Them girls knew what they was doing. They just out to get his money. I don’t care what he did. I’m gonna keep playin’ his music and I’m gonna party to it!” These passionate words were sai...Read More
Having grown up in the Catholic faith, death, dying, and mourning were always such surreal experiences. Although one begs to ask, what isn’t surreal about the entire process for anyone? It always fe...Read More
A few weeks ago, while vising friends in Toronto, we ended up in downtown. Toronto’s downtown core, like other metropolitan cities, has very limited parking spots, and those that are available in lo...Read More
Forget what I was going to write. Forget everything, but the boy on the beach, the boots of the Turkish police standing over his body, arms lifting him up. Isn’t this why we have faith? Sometime...Read More
One “fold” on the Buddhist Noble Eightfold Path toward enlightenment is Right View. “Right view” is the skill of dissolving interpretations in favor of drawing closer to the reality of the wor...Read More