Category: Interfaith
How to Keep Your Cool When Engaging With Religious Zealots
My fingers hovered over the keyboard, ready to write a fighting response while my mind willed me that violence (even if only verbal) is never the answer. The blood steadily coursed through my veins ... Read More
The Power of Prayer and the Promise of Seven Generations
When you hear the terms ‘peaceful protest’ or ‘non-violent opposition’, if you know anything of our history, your mind thinks of two powerful leaders: Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. Wh... Read More
Speak Truth to Power: Pro-Refugee Protesting Experience
Recently, my wife and I attended a protest to express our opposition to President Trump’s executive order to ban refugees from the seven Muslim-majority countries on the list it contained. The prote... Read More
Because Yes Means Yes
This piece was written by Jaimie Dingus, one of the 2016-2017 Boston Bridge Fellows. When I was eight years old my family took a vacation to France over Christmas to visit my mom’s brother, a Foreig... Read More
Art for the Resistance
I haven’t been able to write lately. Not for State of Formation, not poetry, not really anything except for “WTF” over and over again on Facebook as new horrors emerge in the headlines from the ... Read More
Interfaith and Life-Changing Moments: The Birth of a Political Activist
As a mother, the two most important and transformational days in my life were the days my children were born. But as a human being, I am reminded of significant moments when I was present for a life-a... Read More
Faith and Science, as They Really Are (Part Two)
(Part Two of Faith and Science, as They Really Are; see Part One here.) SEPARATION Some contend that science and religion occupy separate worlds, but from my perspective, neither the religious faithf... Read More
Faith and Science, as They Really Are (Part One)
During the Vietnam War, a string of malaria appeared that was resistant to chloroquine, the most prevalent treatment at the time. Malaria was already a huge killer – in 1967 alone, the disease infec... Read More