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Archive: Theology
United We Serve in the Midst of the Storm
Today's guest blogger is Meghan Paul-Cook, the Congregational Organizer with the Saint Paul Area Council of Churches. As a tornado touched down just a few city blocks away, a humble group gathered in the safest place we could be, deep...
By Eboo Patel | August 26, 2009; 05:23 PM ET | Comments (0)
Inspired to Serve
A new book reminds us how the scriptures and stories across faith traditions call us to serve others.
By Eboo Patel | July 14, 2009; 12:00 PM ET | Comments (6)
Obama Speaking to the Whole World
In Cairo, Obama will set the precedent for how diverse peoples and nations should interact in the 21st century.
By Eboo Patel | June 3, 2009; 10:38 AM ET | Comments (2)
Understanding Our Own Faith First
Rather than discuss the hypocrisy of others, we should look deeper into our own beliefs.
By Eboo Patel | May 6, 2009; 11:47 AM ET | Comments (4)
Religion & Violence
Today's guest blogger is Ola Mohamed, a senior Political Science and International Studies double major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ola is also the President of UNC's Muslim Students Association and an '08-'09 Interfaith Youth Core...
By Eboo Patel | April 15, 2009; 03:25 PM ET | Comments (2)
The New Christian Interfaith Leaders
Today's guest blogger is Hannah McConnaughay, an Outreach Education and Training Associate at the Interfaith Youth Core. Hannah graduated in June of 2008 from the University of Chicago, where she studied religious studies and economics and was a member of...
By Eboo Patel | April 1, 2009; 02:30 PM ET | Comments (4)
Virtual Community of Inter-Religious Leaders: the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™
Today's guest blogger is Joshua Stanton. Joshua is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ and a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College. He is the recipient of numerous leadership awards, including the Hyman P. Moldover Scholarship for Communal...
By Eboo Patel | March 25, 2009; 11:27 AM ET | Comments (5)
St. Joseph's Day
Today's guest blogger is Erik Schwarz, founder of Interfaith Works, a nonprofit based in New Orleans, Louisiana, that partners with a wide range of faith communities and other organizations around innovative social-change projects. He also co-directs The Institute for Faith...
By Eboo Patel | March 18, 2009; 04:10 PM ET | Comments (0)
Holding Our Brothers, Fathers, Sons Accountable
From the most conservative traditionalists to Muslim pro-feminists, all along the spectrum there is a growing men's acknowledgment of the corrosive effects of this violence on our communities.
By Eboo Patel | March 2, 2009; 01:33 PM ET | Comments (25)
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: External Violence, Internal Turmoil
Today's guest bloggers are Joshua Stanton and Mirah Curzer. Joshua is a first-year rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College. He is also founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue™ and a 2007 - 2008 Fellow of the Interfaith Youth...
By Eboo Patel | December 10, 2008; 12:29 PM ET | Comments (2)
Ultimate Truth & Interfaith Work
Today's guest blogger is Amber Hacker, a graduate of University of North Carolina Wilmington and a Leadership Associate at the Interfaith Youth Core. Amber manages the bridge-builders network, an online community for leaders of the interfaith youth movement. I believe...
By Eboo Patel | November 12, 2008; 04:11 PM ET | Comments (0)
Faith as heritage, faith as recognition
Today's guest blogger is Remz Pokorny, a senior at Brandeis University, majoring in Political Science and Middle East Studies. He is also an IFYC Fellow and an active member of the Brandeis Baha'i Association. Let's start at the beginning: My...
By Eboo Patel | October 29, 2008; 12:37 PM ET | Comments (6)
Why Al-Qaeda is Endorsing McCain
If Al-Qaeda really thinks a McCain administration would both boost real recruiting AND help advertise the illusion that all Muslims are the enemy, it's no wonder they are pulling for him.
By Eboo Patel | October 27, 2008; 10:19 AM ET | Comments (64)
Whose Religious Values?
As a young voter and interfaith activist, this is what I like to hear. For my peers, focusing on these urgent issues creates common ground for walking across the lines of faith. Without having to agree on the meaning of marriage, we can lobby together for health care and renewable energy.
By Eboo Patel | October 15, 2008; 02:22 PM ET | Comments (15)
Religulous, or Just Ridiculous?
Maher's dogged pursuit of rationality in the face of the faithful is particularly fascinating because his end result - vehemently dismissing religious belief in all forms - is neither reasonable nor humble.
By Eboo Patel | October 8, 2008; 06:13 PM ET | Comments (158)
Vodoo Helping to Heal New Orleans
Today's guest blogger is Erik Schwarz, founder of Interfaith Works, a nonprofit based in New Orleans, Louisiana and Washington, DC that partners a wide range of faith communities and other organizations around innovative social-change projects. He also serves as an...
By Eboo Patel | August 29, 2008; 05:19 PM ET | Comments (8)
Ramadan and Fasting in a Parallel Universe
What makes Ramadan markedly different in America is that it truly brings all faiths together.
By Eboo Patel | August 28, 2008; 10:46 AM ET | Comments (81)
What We Can Learn from Bahá'í Elections
In sports, violations are often imposed for unsportsmanlike conduct. In similar fashion, voters could discourage negative attacks between the candidates, through opinion polls and on Election Day.
By Eboo Patel | August 15, 2008; 01:57 PM ET | Comments (7)
Conflict or Cooperation? A Case for the Interfaith Youth Movement
The world would have us hate one another, but here we are coming together to do something we all care about. There must be something divine in that.
By Eboo Patel | August 11, 2008; 03:05 PM ET | Comments (0)
Darfur & the Olympics: A Jewish Lament
The hour is indeed dark for the women, children, and men of Darfur, but it need not always be so. If people of conscience are willing to dedicate themselves to ending the genocide in western Sudan, it can happen.
By Eboo Patel | August 8, 2008; 11:15 AM ET | Comments (67)
The New Christian Woman
I am grateful to be a member of the Presbyterian Church. The church has blessed me with the freedom to answer God's call, whatever the next call may be.
By Eboo Patel | August 6, 2008; 11:07 AM ET | Comments (4)
The New Interfaith Generation
Many older Americans still don't know someone from another faith, but their children do. The first "Interfaith Generation" in America is growing up.
By Eboo Patel | August 4, 2008; 10:56 AM ET | Comments (10)
Guest Blogger: We Believe but God Knows
Respect for dialogue is captured in the seemingly paradoxical statement that the opinions of Hillel and Shammai were both the “words of the living God.”
By Eboo Patel | June 24, 2008; 05:57 PM ET | Comments (10)
People Build the Steeple
The solution is not denigration of religion a la Hitchens, but new religious leadership that acts on dimensions of faith that are life-affirming instead of suffocating.
By Eboo Patel | May 25, 2007; 10:56 AM ET | Comments (76)
On Mormons and Muslims
I cannot help but consider it a gift from God that it was a Mormon who illuminated those Muslim values for me.
By Eboo Patel | May 7, 2007; 11:40 AM ET | Comments (157)
On Admiring the Religious Other
Many of our most significant Abrahamic religious leaders – Thomas Merton, Bede Griffiths, Badshah Khan, Martin Luther King Jr. – had a deep admiration for Eastern spiritual traditions.
By Eboo Patel | April 16, 2007; 09:41 AM ET | Comments (33)
