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The Bay Area Dispatch of Doom Vol. 16 (New job edition)
Posted on July 12, 2010 | View CommentsNOTE: This is a modified “for public consumption” version of my world-famous (yeah right) email newsletter. A slightly less-edited version is available – just write me!
Hello friends,
Mung beans are about $1.19 in the bulk food aisle at Whole Foods. You can take these beans and sprout them in a Mason jar. A pound of beans will make BOATLOADS of fresh, tasty, nutritious sprouts. Good eatin’! And yes, I realize that the acronym for the Dispatch is now B.A.D.D. – it’s cuz I’m such a tough guy. :)
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Bridging Babel: New Social Media and Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding
Posted on June 24, 2010 | View CommentsMy friends over at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs have put together a sweet project called Bridging Babel: New Social Media and Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding.
I got hooked up with the project at the Interfaith Youth Core‘s conference last October. I was presenting a workshop on social web tools and the interfaith movement. I met Melody Fox Ahmed, Director of Programs and Operations at the Berkley Center, and we’ve kept up correspondence since then. The report is really cool, quite in-depth, and very useful for looking at the ways in which dialogue and action will happen online.It’s also totally dope because they quoted me a few times in the report. :) Here’s a video with the undergraduate researchers talking about the highlights. I recommend checking out Bridging Babel – it’s worth the read.Read more on Bridging Babel: New Social Media and Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding…
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Faiths Act Fellowship draws to a close
Posted on June 6, 2010 | View Comments
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 his way into the US, a casualty of America’s homeland security theatre. Luckily, we were able to Skype him in for a few of our sessions! -
We are Catholic and Muslim and often very much alike
Posted on June 1, 2010 | View CommentsThere 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 drove around the accident site, already clogged with emergency vehicles and police, I drew my right hand slowly to my forehead. After resting there for a moment, I touched the space below my sternum, then surreptitiously brought my hand to my left and then right shoulders. I completed this motion by bringing my hand to my lips and lightly kissing my fingertips as I mouthed the words ‘Protect them’, all the while trying to look like I was simply scratching invisible itches.
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Google search stories – malaria and interfaith
Posted on May 5, 2010 | View Comments -
Religious literacy
Posted on January 23, 2010 | View CommentsUS 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:
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Malaria in the Bay Area – Secret Strategy Document
Posted on December 18, 2009 | View Comments
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The following message is a highly-confidential, eyes-only communique from our secret plans to do good.
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Stanford University Day of Interfaith Youth Service
Posted on November 9, 2009 | View Comments
Stanford University FAITH
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 been helping people of faith organize these service projects for a handful of years now. The organization (which happens to be my employer) trains leaders who then head out to put the projects together.
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Dream of failed suicide?
Posted on November 2, 2009 | View Comments
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. -
Getting your voice heard: Interfaith and social media
Posted on November 1, 2009 | View CommentsThis is the Prezi for a workshop that I presented at the 6th Interfaith Youth Core Conference “Leadership for a Religiously-Diverse World”. It went well, I think. Folks seemed genuinely interested in seeing how we can apply social media outreach and tactics to the interfaith “field”, and I had a great time presenting it, too. I have audio and video that I hope to cobble together with this Prezi at a later date. But for now:
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