Category: Intra-Faith
Podcast: What do Cats Have to do with Interfaith Work?
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
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
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
Two Interfaith Stories: In Formation
In this podcast, Connor Dedrick and Reuben Allik, Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative Fellows, share their personal interfaith journeys alongside and through their experiences in their own religio... Read More
“You’ve got to get your hands in the dirt!” And other lessons I’ve learned from teaching Interfaith Engagement
“Everybody’s hungry for something and everyone has something to offer.” This is the sign that welcomes visitors to The Lord’s Acre, a non-profit farm located outside Asheville, NC. Each Wednes... Read More
When Harry Met Wesley: Faith and Magic in Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford Alright, I admit it. I love pop culture. That’s probably why I enjoyed the references to the movie Alien cunningly embedded into the story lines of the 2018 cinematic bl... Read More
Getting Beyond the Tent of Abraham, Part 3: Sharing the Burden
One of the greatest barriers to meaningful interreligious learning is the oversimplification, or ignorance of the internal diversity, of religious traditions other than our own. It comes out in the ma... Read More
“Go Down, Moses…and this time let Aaron do all the talking.”
Artwork by Aron de Chaves, Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, Creechurch Lane, London, England Of all my high school classes, speech terrified me the most. In my youth, I had a speech i... Read More