Podcast: What do Cats Have to do with Interfaith Work?
Developing Dialogue and Defining Hope
What do the phrases “conservative Mormon” and “queer progressive interfaith dialogue” have in common? Me. The former is what I was raised as and the latter has been slowly adde... Read More
What is the point of interfaith work?
Over and over during my time as a Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI) fellow, I found myself asking the question: What is the point of interfaith work? I was not asking out of frustration o... Read More
Bringing BILI Back to Campus
The most important thing that the Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI) taught me is how to facilitate interreligious dialogue. Even intra-religious dialogue, to me, is fairly stressful... 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
Where Hope Fails
As I graduate college, I notice all of the rhetoric surrounding me about how I’m about to “start my life” and venture onto the “next new chapter” of my story. I can’t help but feel the pre... Read More
Discovering Faith through Dialogue
Before the Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI), I didn’t truly understand what interfaith interactions actually entailed. I thought BILI would teach me about the tenets of others’ relig... 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