Tag: Christianity
Moved Toward Hope: Translating Values into Action
Over the past few months, the BILI (Building Interfaith Leadership Initiative) fellowship and my campus community at Tufts University have guided me to a new definition of interfaith work. I have lear... Read More
Embodying the Dominican Spirit in Interfaith Work: Community, Prayer, Service and Study
Growing up in a western suburb of Chicago, in a primarily Catholic household, I have always had a deep appreciation and love for my Guatemalan roots and a desire to help the people in my community. My... Read More
When Harry Met Wesley: Faith and Magic in Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford Alright, I admit it. I love pop culture. That’s probably why I enjoyed the references to the movie Alien cunningly embedded into the story lines of the 2018 cinematic bl... Read More
“When You Stand Praying … Forgive”
In summer of 2017, my wife and I taught a Sunday school series on the Jewishness of Jesus. It was not the first time we taught this topic. This delightfully progressive and thoughtful group was quick ... Read More
When a Humanist Is Asked to Pray
In Ghana it is customary to start and end every meeting with a prayer. What kind of meeting doesn’t matter: PTA meeting, building project meeting, NGO planning meeting–they all start and end w... Read More
Lost and Found: Interfaith Dialogue and Rediscovering Religious History
I am currently in the middle of The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia–and How It Died, by the renowned historia... Read More
Why I’m a Christian Committed to Interfaith Work
Editorial Director’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 ... Read More
Religion and Resistance: The Holocaust and Today
We are pleased to share the last of a series of three reflection pieces on the State of Formation visit to the United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum this March. Each one is a collaborative piece ... Read More