Podcast: What do Cats Have to do with Interfaith Work?
Stronger Together
“Well, this is awkward,” I thought as small drops splashed onto my cassock. I suppose it shouldn’t have struck me as that awkward. After all, I was processing through a church singing all about ... Read More
Needing to Know Your Neighbors
Managing Editor’s note: all Contributing Scholars begin writing by answering the following question as their first post: Why are you committed to building relationships with those from different rel... Read More
Let’s Talk About the Refugee Crisis for a Moment
In the last two weeks, the travesty of what’s been happening in the Middle East (a complicated and complex term in itself) has come to full light with the recent refugee crisis that has hit many par... Read More
A Torah of Moving
Over the past few years I’ve become an unwilling expert in moving – a process that previously made me want to tear my hair out – and somehow managed to come out with my spirit intact, maybe even... Read More
A Lonely Atonement: Yom Kippur in the Islamic Studies Reading Rooom
It’s Erev Yom Kippur. Perhaps the holiest night of the Jewish year. I’m sitting in the Islamic Studies Reading Room at Columbia’s Butler Library, reading through Shi’a manifest... Read More
Making the Unconscious, Conscious: Why Interfaith Communities Struggle with Racial Diversity
Last year, I was inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement to write, “The Illusion of Separation”. The purpose was to encourage people in Interfaith, Interreligious and Interspiritual communitie... Read More
Yom Kippur and Eid Al-Adha as Interfaith Opportunity
Once again this year Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement for Jews, will coincide with the Muslim Eid al Adha, which celebrates the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son Ishmael, with both... Read More
Can Interfaith Dialogue Lead to Racial Justice?
O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. – The Holy Quran 49:13 I was born and raised in Pakistan, a country pred... Read More
Our Humanity Compels Us Toward Others
I believe that in order to better relationships between peoples in today’s interdependent world, it is imperative that countries become more sensitive to the beliefs and histories of the different p... Read More