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
The below article was originally published on Interfaith America, a publication of Interfaith Youth Core, on March 25, 2021. This coming Saturday night, Jews throughout the world will celebrate the f...Read More
I view the words interfaith and interreligious as any interactions between those of different faith traditions aimed at finding solutions for difficulties between their communities and within their ow...Read More
My introduction to the world of interfaith work was more of an accident than anything. On a whim, I decided to get involved with religious life during my first few weeks of college. I hadn’t ever he...Read More
How did I get here? To be completely honest, I got an email asking if I wanted to apply to be a part of the Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI), and I thought to myself, “Literally why no...Read More
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
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
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
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
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