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
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
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
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
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
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
For many of my early Boston Interfaith Leadership Initiative (BILI) sessions, as well as my time at the Interfaith Leadership Institute in Chicago, I felt like I was doing a lot of personal developmen...Read More
The last few months have been unlike any our faith communities have ever experienced. My best friend had to evacuate her university to be with her family in Qatar. They celebrated Ramadan trapped insi...Read More
If you would have told me a year-and-a-half ago, when I first left the Mighty Midwest to come to the Northeast, that two of my favorite things about Boston would be the interreligious experiences and ...Read More
A soft warm light infused the room, flowing from the flames of the deepas I’d just lit. A variety of idols lined the walls, their faces cast in an orange glow. My mother, sister, and I all watched w...Read More