I had a very interesting dream last night. For starters, please acquaint yourself with the idea of interfaith work, which I blog about often. If you’re already up to date, awesome. In the dream, I was traveling with a crew of interfaith leaders. These were shadows of people that I know in real life, although [...]
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Rami Nashashibi and Joshua Dubois
October 27th, 2009
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Rami Nashashibi (Executive Director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network) and Joshua Dubois (head of the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) spoke to us today. Again, much of this will appear as stream-of-consciousness writing, with intermixing of paraphrasing and quotations. Nashashibi addressed us first, saying that our conference was aimed at rekindling the [...]
From Obama’s Cairo Speech to Action
October 27th, 2009
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I attended a session with some officials from the White House. A few months ago, President Obama gave a speech in Cairo, his “address to the Muslim World”, where he affirmed America’s commitment not only to community service but interfaith dialogue and action. These officials came to the conference to explain a bit about what [...]
Bridge-Builders
October 26th, 2009
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Tonight we are honoring “bridge-builders”, people who are making the idea of inter and intra-religious cooperation a reality in the day-to-day life of American social/civic interaction and indeed the world. They are changing the conversation about religion. Here they are: Abraham’s Vision – An organization that is providing education and vision to young people on [...]
Fasting for Ramadan
October 8th, 2009
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Ramadan came this year during our Faiths Act Fellows training in Tanzania. Each morning, we would rise between 4 and 4:15 a.m. to sit outside in the stillness of East Africa and eat our breakfast. “We” in this case was Hafsa Arain (Muslim), Nadeem Javaid (Muslim), Amy McNair (Christian), and me. People tend to be [...]
October Newsletter from Interfaith Youth Core
October 6th, 2009
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This post appeared in the “Movement in Action” section of the Interfaith Youth Core’s October email newsletter: For most ordinary jobs, training or orientation usually denotes a few hours, perhaps a day or two, devoted to learning the ins and outs of one’s new organization. The Faiths Act Fellows trained for six weeks on three [...]
Why faith? Part 1
September 16th, 2009
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Today I leave Chicago along with twenty-eight of the other Faiths Act Fellows (my site-partner Hafsa lives in the city). I’m not flying home since home for me is only 100-odd miles west of Chicago. Tonight I’ll meet up with some of my old professors, mentors, and friends from Aurora University to play catch-up on [...]
Interfaith Livin’
August 20th, 2009
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I was called upon by our team boss to lead the group during today’s “early morning interfaith spiritual reflection”. Since we’re all young people of faith, I suppose it’s only natural that we learn a bit from each other by sharing something from our own tradition. To be honest, it took a lot of thought [...]
Finding a purpose
August 6th, 2009
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There comes a time in the life of a person where they decide that their existence is intimately bound up with all the other people and things on this planet. This is the time when a person becomes more self-aware; it’s the point where people decide that they cannot simply walk through the world without [...]
