Category: Learning
Mindfulness and Interfaith Work: Lessons from the Past Year
Every month this past year, I had the privilege of attending a Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI) meeting as a fellow. Each three hour-long meeting featured a different wonderful guest spe... 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
Three Lessons I have Learned from Interfaith Engagement
If you would have told me a year-and-a-half ago, when I first left the Mighty Midwest to come to the Northeast, that two of my favorite things about Boston would be the interreligious experiences and ... Read More
A Process of Learning
A soft warm light infused the room, flowing from the flames of the deepas I’d just lit. A variety of idols lined the walls, their faces cast in an orange glow. My mother, sister, and I all watched w... Read More
The Pieces of Our Faith
Icons and saints are a really interesting part of the Christian tradition for me. In my practice, as a Pentecostal, I have never had a necklace with any religious figures, had any window panes depicti... Read More
Looking for Faith? Now there’s an app for that.
A few years ago I found myself doing what many do when deciding to put down roots in a new community: I went church shopping. If we’re honest with one another, this can be a very time-consuming and ... Read More
Flames of Our Lady, Beauty in the Sacred Heart, and Love in the Aftermath of Destruction
Monday, April 15th, 2019. A day that will be written about in religious history books. I was sitting in the ground floor of the mailroom. No classes were being held because of Patriot’s Day, a state... Read More
Jaffa and Old City Walls: Technology as a Gate to Interfaith Encounter
Near the Jaffa Gate outside the old City of Jerusalem is a place good as any to see the contrast of the old and the new. Ancient walls and ramparts give way to modern shopping centers lined with cafes... Read More