My Neighbor’s Faith:
Double-Edged Daggers
by Valarie Kaur
Usually on Sunday mornings, my father’s outside on a tractor, my mother’s making aloo pronthas, my brother’s watching cartoons, and I’m sleeping in. Sometimes, my mother crams the whole family into Baba Ji’s room to sing shabads and recite Scripture together. But on this Sunday morning, my grandfather has asked me to come with him to the gurdwara, a Sikh house of worship some miles away. At sixteen years old, I dutifully follow.
I'm still rubbing the sleep from my eyes as I slip off my shoes. Wrapped in a long head scarf, I follow my grandfather inside. One step takes us from our small farming town in California's Central Valley into an entire world transported from India.
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This essay is an excerpt from “My Neighbor’s Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, And Transformation” from Orbis. |
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The Science of Compassion
by James Doty
Why, in a country that consumes 25% of the world’s resources (the U.S.), is there an epidemic of loneliness, depression, and anxiety? Why do so many in the West who have all of their basic needs met still feel impoverished? While some politicians might answer, “It’s the economy, stupid,” Based on scientific evidence, a better answer is, “It’s the lack of compassion, stupid.”
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Sharing Sacred Spaces Creates Interreligious Solidarity
Eight religious and spiritual communities in Chicago signed a pledge of solidarity after a nine-month program of visiting each other's sacred spaces.
"We were amazed at how people took this up," said Suzanne Morgan, CPWR's Sacred Space Ambassador. "They wanted to connect, to share something."
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RavelUnravel is Live!
Project Interfaith brings us over 700 video interviews of people describing their traditions and beliefs in their own words. Experience the stories and upload your own at ravelunravel.com!
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Why Interfaith Understanding Is More Important Than Ever in Leadership
by Tony Blair
When we began the Tony Blair Faith Foundation four years ago, there was a lot of scepticism as to whether there really was any interest in inter-faith understanding. Weren’t religion and religious people bound to be introspective and uninterested in the faith of others? Today we are active in 20 countries, thousands of people take part in our programmes and we have volunteers in over 140 nations.
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Odyssey Networks Puts Out Call for "2012 Hours Against Hate" Project
If you are between the ages of 15 and 24, here’s how you can have your story of a great experience made into a video…
Volunteer one hour where you spend time with someone different from you.
Find someone who doesn’t look like you, or who does not live like you
AND who doesn’t pray like you.
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