The interfaith super-heroes at Project Interfaith in Omaha asked me to provide a guest post about my path to interfaith leadership. Here’s the intro – follow this link to the rest of the post: I grew up rural. That’s the important part of this story. I lived in a farming community about two hours west [...]
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Interfaith iPhone/mobile app: FaithNews – Multifaith News and Events
February 26th, 2011
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During the Faiths Act Fellowship, I was hosted by Islamic Networks Group (ING), an educational organization that promotes religious literacy and mutual respect. When the Fellowship ended, I came on board as a consultant. One of the first projects that I wrapped my head around was a mobile app. The CEO wanted a mobile app [...]
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Kiva loans
July 26th, 2010
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Touched by His Noodly Appendage I found the profile for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Pastafarians) Kiva Lending Team while doing some related research on religious lending. Any guesses as to how many dollars in loans they’ve pushed out? The answer: $328,000+ Yes, that’s like a third-of-a-million bucks for those of you keeping [...]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Atheists
July 22nd, 2010
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UPDATE: The original post at Nonprophet Status has made it to the front page of WordPress.com. WOOHOO! My dear friend Chris Stedman over at the Nonprophet Status blog (Respecting Religion, Staying Secular) invited me to write a guest post for him. So I did. It’s called “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Atheists“, [...]
Faiths Act Fellowship draws to a close
June 6th, 2010
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I spent the last week of May in Chicago with the Faiths Act Fellows. For many, it was the first sight of each other since we parted ways back in September. Unfortunately, only 29 of the 30 Fellows were able to attend. Bilal Hassam, who was based in Leicester, UK, was detained in Montreal on [...]
We are Catholic and Muslim and often very much alike
June 1st, 2010
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There was a car accident in the southbound lane of Highway 880 near Fremont the other day. Thankfully, no one seemed to be seriously hurt. My site-partner Hafsa and I were headed back to the office after a long day of wrap-up meetings for our Faiths Act work here in the Bay Area. As we [...]
Religious literacy
January 23rd, 2010
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US Airways flight diverted after passenger “caught” praying. How’s that for a headline? Let’s go with our gut reaction – it was a Muslim, wasn’t it? Wrong. Those lines are lifted from the news story. What kind of a person wraps straps around his head to pray? Jews, that’s who. Observe: Yeah. A plane was [...]
Stanford University Day of Interfaith Youth Service
November 9th, 2009
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Stanford University has a brand new and highly-motivated interfaith group. It’s called Faiths Acting In Togetherness and Hope, otherwise known by its acronym FAITH. On Saturday, November 7, the group organized its first Day of Interfaith Youth Service (DIYS). The Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core (led by Obama advisor and well-recognized American leader Eboo Patel) has [...]
