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Making Yourself Worthy
Eboo Patel is the founder and Executive Director of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), a Chicago-based institution building the global interfaith youth movement. I met Brother Wayne in the spring of 1997,...
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A Fresh Look
Interfaith Connections is a column for teens to dialogue about how their faith or wisdom tradition influences their view of life’s big questions. In each issue, three teens from different backgrounds...
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More Than Spirituality
I grew up in a not-so-religious Muslim family, in an atheist country in the former Yugoslavia. In terms of history, stories, and religion, the Balkans were flammable. So, when at 17 I became a...
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Reaching Across Different Faiths and Cultures
Interfaith Connections is a column for teens to dialogue about how their faith or wisdom tradition influences their view of life’s big questions. In each issue, three teens from different backgrounds...
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The Ethics of the Interfaith Movement
(Pictured above, left, is Greg Epstein, Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University; and right, Dr. Eboo Patel, Founder and President of the Interfaith Youth Core.) What does it mean to live a good human...
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Our World: An Interdependent Web
I was not raised in a family where religion played a big role. I have always known that both my parents were Christians at one point in their lives, but they drifted away and by the time I was born,...
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The Ecology of Our Minds
When I was eight years old, my parents used to take me to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. We would go every week of the summer, spread out a blanket on the grass, and enact a tradition central...
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The Earth and Me
I feel very lucky to be part of the Muslim community where I can study how humanity affects the earth, as well as understand my duty towards it. Islam is a religion that teaches duty and...
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The Stranger
The stranger can’t be trusted. The stranger is inhospitable and dangerous. Pakistan is a developing nation and a large percentage of the population faces poverty and struggles to earn an income. These...
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Ideals Versus Reality
When I was first asked how my religion or faith views the stranger, I didn’t know what to think. It seemed that my religion taught one thing, while my personal experiences taught another. I have grown...
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Honoring the Stranger
From left to right: Imam Jamal Rahman, Pastor Don Mackenzie, and Rabbi Ted Falcon The Stranger in Jewish Experience and Teachings by Rabbi Ted Falcon, Ph.D. Because my family moved to an outlying...
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Love’s Final Form
Power is not given; it is within us and cannot be taken away. This is a great responsibility and privilege, one that we humans sometimes abuse. Dani* and I were best friends. We would hang out almost...
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Soldier of Peace
A dozen fridge-sized speakers hung from the ceiling; giant screens magnified the faces of the presenters as more than a thousand people stared expectantly at the stage. I craned my neck to see the...
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The Wholeness of Nature
I’m not a religious person. I was baptized a Catholic but slowly realized that many of Catholicism’s beliefs and principles did not fit my own. Over the years, I have explored many different...
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Happiness Through Service
There is a widespread view that happiness is obtained through reciprocity. In other words, happiness is dictated by how much we receive in any given exchange. But, what would happen when we give...
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The Faith We Found
Human beings are an integral part of the world. A world without humans would have the most untamed and undisturbed forms of nature, where the trees are as green and the rain is as wild as ever. The...
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