Category: Featured
Crossing the Bridge
The Boston Bridges Fellows program is a unique and encouraging opportunity for emerging faith leaders and advocates to collaborate and share life experiences in a safe and authentic environment. This ... Read More
For a Time Such as This: The “Post-Secular” (Part I of II)
Our “new-found” awareness of multiple religions has led some scholars to reckon with the truth of religious claims. In various ways, many are discerning what it means for these forces to coexist. ... Read More
The Art of Listening
Listening is an art, requiring practice, skill, spirit, and inspiration. The artistic medium is you: your ears, your body, your mind, and your heart. Listening is something altogether different from h... Read More
The Cross and Courage
As an emerging leader in a religious context, I have often been faced with one specific question: how does one make sense of justice and construct values and goals that engage the greater society in l... Read More
BILI Program Reflections
The below was written for the 2017-2018 cohort of the Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI), in which Ann-Marie was a fellow. For more information about the program, please see the BILI ... Read More
Learning from God to Be Angry
For much of my Jewish education, my teachers had inculcated me with a fear of anger. I was taught that, unlike other character traits and emotions, anger is the only attribute that should not exist in... Read More
What Is My Spirituality?
For a long time, I was trying to figure out what it meant to be “spiritual.” I was raised Roman Catholic. My paternal grandfather recited Psalm 91 quite frequently, recorded himself reading the Bi... Read More
What “Mary Poppins Returns” Can Teach Us About Grief and Healing
“Nothing’s gone forever, only out of place.” The insight of this simple line from the song, “The Place Where Lost Things Go” in Mary Poppins Returns can offer us a bit of wisdom during the o... Read More