Category: Interfaith
The Mutual Benefit of Working to Understand Others
My parents did the best they could to explain other faiths as I grew up. In my small Texas town, the scope of religion was narrow. There were the Catholics down the street who cared too much about Mar... Read More
Interfaith Abroad, Part 2: Privilege, Context, and Coming Home
Read Part I here. Travel gives you space to see new things, and learn to appreciate all the familiar things you take for granted. Travel grants the traveler a suspension of their own reality, a limina... Read More
Stronger Together
“Well, this is awkward,” I thought as small drops splashed onto my cassock. I suppose it shouldn’t have struck me as that awkward. After all, I was processing through a church singing all about ... Read More
Needing to Know Your Neighbors
Managing Editor’s note: all Contributing Scholars begin writing by answering the following question as their first post: Why are you committed to building relationships with those from different rel... Read More
A Lonely Atonement: Yom Kippur in the Islamic Studies Reading Rooom
It’s Erev Yom Kippur. Perhaps the holiest night of the Jewish year. I’m sitting in the Islamic Studies Reading Room at Columbia’s Butler Library, reading through Shi’a manifest... Read More
Making the Unconscious, Conscious: Why Interfaith Communities Struggle with Racial Diversity
Last year, I was inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement to write, “The Illusion of Separation”. The purpose was to encourage people in Interfaith, Interreligious and Interspiritual communitie... Read More
Yom Kippur and Eid Al-Adha as Interfaith Opportunity
Once again this year Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement for Jews, will coincide with the Muslim Eid al Adha, which celebrates the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son Ishmael, with both... Read More
Can Interfaith Dialogue Lead to Racial Justice?
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