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Category: Interfaith

Hospitality transcending language and faith: Celebrating the Easter Feast at Abbaye Sainte Marie de la Résurrection, Abu Ghosh, Israel

Hospitality transcending language and faith: Celebrating the Easter Feast at Abbaye Sainte Marie de la Résurrection, Abu Ghosh, Israel

Posted on October 31, 2024October 31, 2024 by Kyle Desrosiers
This essay originally appeared in Stained Glass Travel in April 2022. It is shared with permission. I have had the privilege of spending the two Easters I have lived in Israel at the French Bened... Read More
Podcast: What do Cats Have to do with Interfaith Work?

Podcast: What do Cats Have to do with Interfaith Work?

Posted on July 15, 2024July 15, 2024 by Grace Boyd
From Grace Boyd, Dr. Robin Mitchell Stroud, and the University of Southern California (USC) Office of Religious and Spiritual Life — a conversation about cats, conflict transformation, and lesso... Read More
Podcast: Finding Faith in Interfaith Work 

Podcast: Finding Faith in Interfaith Work 

Posted on July 12, 2024July 23, 2024 by Alina Wilson
In the summer of 2023, Alina Wilson attended the Interfaith America Summit, despite feeling increasingly distant from institutionalized religion. Returning to a campus rife with politically charged re... Read More
Moved Toward Hope: Translating Values into Action

Moved Toward Hope: Translating Values into Action

Posted on May 23, 2023May 23, 2023 by Emily Thompson
Over the past few months, the BILI (Building Interfaith Leadership Initiative) fellowship and my campus community at Tufts University have guided me to a new definition of interfaith work. I have lear... Read More
Embodying the Dominican Spirit in Interfaith Work: Community, Prayer, Service and Study

Embodying the Dominican Spirit in Interfaith Work: Community, Prayer, Service and Study

Posted on April 24, 2023May 23, 2023 by Maddie Vargas
Growing up in a western suburb of Chicago, in a primarily Catholic household, I have always had a deep appreciation and love for my Guatemalan roots and a desire to help the people in my community. My... Read More
The Art of Dialogue as Dance: Authenticity, Generosity and Spontaneity

The Art of Dialogue as Dance: Authenticity, Generosity and Spontaneity

Posted on April 22, 2023May 23, 2023 by Sharaya Johnson
When one thinks of art, it is easy to think of one of the greats – Jean-Michel Basquiat, Nina Simone, or Pablo Picasso. Conversation, however, is also an art through which we exchange our ideas,... Read More
Bridging Differences by Remembering Common Humanity

Bridging Differences by Remembering Common Humanity

Posted on April 19, 2023April 20, 2023 by Moksha Kachhia
During the 2016 presidential election, as the socio-political climate of the entire nation changed, I observed polarization and the creeping normalization of xenophobia in my own high school. This was... Read More
Story-telling and Story-listening: my Interfaith Journey

Story-telling and Story-listening: my Interfaith Journey

Posted on April 19, 2023April 22, 2023 by Evan Chester
Maybe it’s just my struggle to socialize, but every time I meet someone new I’ve always wanted to have a story ready. For a few years it was describing the time I get held up in airport security f... Read More
Podcast: Understanding Interfaith through the Development my Own Faith

Podcast: Understanding Interfaith through the Development my Own Faith

Posted on April 18, 2023April 20, 2023 by Wanci Nana
“One pillar that developed in my frame of mind was that the essence and greatness of God are unfathomable. They cannot be confined to the parameters and constructs created by humanity.”... Read More
Building Interfaith Connections on Campus: Potluck Style

Building Interfaith Connections on Campus: Potluck Style

Posted on April 17, 2023April 24, 2023 by Zia Saylor
I’ve been to a lot of potlucks in my life, but my favorite potluck was one that didn’t serve any food: the potluck of interfaith dialogue. While a potluck with no food may sound oxymoronic, I call... Read More
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State of Formation, founded as an offshoot of the Journal of Interreligious Studies (JIRS), is a program of the Betty Ann Greenbaum Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership at Hebrew College and Boston University School of Theology.

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