Category: Social Issues
How to be an Interfaith Leader When You’re 19, Still Living with Your Parents, and the World is Ending
My introduction to the world of interfaith work was more of an accident than anything. On a whim, I decided to get involved with religious life during my first few weeks of college. I hadn’t ever he... 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
Coronavirus, the Adaption of Religion, and a Hope for Greater Unity
The last few months have been unlike any our faith communities have ever experienced. My best friend had to evacuate her university to be with her family in Qatar. They celebrated Ramadan trapped insi... Read More
My Emerging Unapologetic Activism
The January incident between students from Covington Catholic High School and Native American elder, Nathan Phillips, felt deeply personal when it first circulated the news and went viral on social me... Read More
Life-Changing Falafel and Heresy
Late into the evening of December 4th, 2018, as I sat in the basement of Boston University’s Marsh Chapel swallowing what amounted to my fifth (or sixth?) falafel, I came to one of the most liberati... Read More
A Call for Spiritual Creatives
I believe that to be spiritual means to exist and create in full consciousness, in balance with both the divine feminine and masculine. The Power of Shakti by Padma Aon Prakasha, on the very first pag... Read More