Category: Spirituality
“AND” With Each Breath: Reflections of a Dignity Project Mentor
As we end the inaugural year of the Dignity Project during an unprecedented year of pandemic and social injustice locally and globally, I reflect on what I have learned about working with youth and fe... Read More
Thank you, Howard Thurman: Remembering an American spiritual master
Howard Thurman teaches a college class. Thurman came to know Martin Luther King Jr. at Boston University. Photo courtesy of Emory University. The below article was originally published on Religion Ne... Read More
Expanding Definitions
Even though I grew up in an interreligious family, “interfaith” was not a term I was familiar with. I was raised Catholic, attending catechism throughout my childhood until I was eventually confir... Read More
Tolerance is Not Enough
When reflecting back on how the Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI) has changed my definition of the word interfaith, I think about my personal evolution with the definition of tolerance.&n... 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
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
Learning Together: Navigating Communal Reflection and Action
In the fall of my freshman year, on the Friday before classes started, I attended my first Shabbat service at Tufts. We came together under the auspices of an interfaith-focused pre-orientation, CAFE,... Read More