Category: Interfaith
What is the point of interfaith work?
Over and over during my time as a Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI) fellow, I found myself asking the question: What is the point of interfaith work? I was not asking out of frustration o... Read More
Bringing BILI Back to Campus
The most important thing that the Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI) taught me is how to facilitate interreligious dialogue. Even intra-religious dialogue, to me, is fairly stressful... Read More
What qualifies as interfaith work, and what are its purposes?
Coming into this year, I had a pretty well-defined idea of interfaith engagement as the coming together of different faith communities in part because of their unique abilities as faith communities. I... Read More
A Patchwork I Am Proud to Embody
I have always struggled with what interfaith work means, in part because I feel as if much of my young adulthood has been focused on intrafaith work: connecting with the Hindu-identified people around... Read More
Building Communities to Mobilize in Times of Crisis
Over the course of the last year, I have been part of the Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI), a program for interreligious leadership development. It was an opportunity to develop a set of... Read More
Where Hope Fails
As I graduate college, I notice all of the rhetoric surrounding me about how I’m about to “start my life” and venture onto the “next new chapter” of my story. I can’t help but feel the pre... Read More
Discovering Faith through Dialogue
Before the Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI), I didn’t truly understand what interfaith interactions actually entailed. I thought BILI would teach me about the tenets of others’ relig... Read More
How Accessible is Interfaith Work?
For many of my early Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI) sessions, as well as my time at the Interfaith Leadership Institute in Chicago, I felt like I was doing a lot of personal developmen... Read More