Category: Featured
Enhancing Campus Interfaith Initiatives after BILI
Image of a community fridge and pantry for members of the Northeastern community, established this past year through interfaith collaboration between the Catholic Center at Northeastern, Northeastern ... Read More
Thank you, Howard Thurman: Remembering an American spiritual master
Howard Thurman teaches a college class. Thurman came to know Martin Luther King Jr. at Boston University. Photo courtesy of Emory University. The below article was originally published on Religion Ne... Read More
“Let All Who are Hungry Come and Eat”: Passover, COVID-19, and Youth Leadership
The below article was originally published on Interfaith America, a publication of Interfaith Youth Core, on March 25, 2021. This coming Saturday night, Jews throughout the world will celebrate the f... Read More
A Dialogue of Faith
I view the words interfaith and interreligious as any interactions between those of different faith traditions aimed at finding solutions for difficulties between their communities and within their ow... Read More
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