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DivInnovations Profile 5: Yale Divinity School
Multifaith engagement at YDS goes well beyond official commitments and guidelines, however, touching the day-to-day fabric of life at the Divinity School, where Christian students may sit side-by-side... Read More
Can Grit and Curiosity Transform Urban Education?
Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, opened his talk by discussing rats. In an audience of Harvard education students, this set the expectati... Read More
From Minyan to Critical Mass: Interfaith Immersion
As an interfaith organizer, anyone who gives me advice is likely to affirm the value of building one-on-one, trusting relationships. As a social entrepreneur, many people give me advice to focus on de... Read More
To Till and to Tend
What was humanity's original purpose in the Garden of Eden and what can we learn from this as we approach the Jewish High Holy Days?... Read More
Evil Rising From Where We Tried to Bury It
In 1945, as Allied forces were closing in on him, Adolf Hitler took his own life. His death seemed to symbolize the end of the Nazi Empire. In recent times, there appears to be a Rise of the Evil Hi... Read More
What Every Muslim Does When Visiting Barnes and Noble by Tricia Pethic
On a recent visit to Barnes & Noble I did what every Muslim does when they pay a visit. I rearranged the bookshelf. Well, the shelf on Islam to be exact. OK, it was more like the half a shelf we ... Read More
Water and tea, Delhi
It’s 10:40 PM when I arrive in Delhi. With a classmate from Toronto, we met two staff from the program, who put us in a pre-paid cab. Shades of tap-taps in Haiti; “lanes” on the high... Read More
Through the Eyes of Sikh Kids: a Profound Lesson in Tolerance
Last weekend, I had the unenviable task of teaching Sikh children about the massacre in Oak Creek. The kids sat at picnic tables overlooking a lake at sunset at a summer camp in New York State. They c... Read More
What Does Deuteronomy Have To Do With Choosing a President?
Are you sick of it yet? The barrage of commercials, of cable tv pundits talking incessantly, and of news and social media being obsessed with every little political sound bite? Alas, with the Pres... Read More