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My journey with faith started in middle school when all my friends went to play games on Friday nights at the church just down the block from our school. I started attending these Friday game nights with dozens of kids and eventually transitioned to the smaller youth group meetings on Tuesdays and then to a …
Between the three major Abrahamic religions and among the many schools of thought that have spawned from them in the last two thousand years, it’s unlikely that you’ve heard of the tradition of apophatic theology. And you’d be forgiven, as it’s difficult for a tradition as lacking in a charismatic frontman as this to reach …
When I was little, prayer felt like a mystery I could never quite figure out. It was a ritual I experienced daily around my childhood dinner table, where my sisters and I would recite prayers as fast as we could before eating. My family prayed before going to bed, too, gathering in a room each …
Prayer is something common across nearly all religions, yet how it is practiced is unique to each religion, and even more unique to each person. A crash course on traditional Jewish prayer: Jews are obligated to pray three times a day — in the morning, afternoon, and evening. The prayer routines vary in length and …
Growing up I never understood the book of Job in the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian Scriptures. I will focus on a few points of the story below, but in brief: Job is a wealthy and God-fearing man with a comfortable life and large family; God, having asked Satan for his opinion of Job’s piety, decides …
“If we don’t grasp hold of the snake, it won’t bite us. If we don’t grasp onto the moods, the feelings, the thoughts, they won’t bite us.” I would like to use these two sentences from Ajahn Jayasaro’s book Seen in Their True Light to start my discussion about achieving mindfulness and the cessation of …
This summer, my sister and her fiance (now husband) got married in the Catholic church that I grew up in. I was a groomsman, so I was involved in the rehearsal and the ceremony. It was an unusual experience for me. You would think that since I grew up in the church that I would …
In early June, Robinia’s Courtyard saw its outdoor patio complete with local talent, families, friends, and its usual dancing crowd. This would be my first time attending a live musical performance in over a year. Not only that, this would be my first time attending any public event resembling pre-pandemic measures. Though I was certainly …
As I closed my eyes, I ran through the list I had practiced asking for: good grades, a dog, not having to run the mile in gym class the next day. From an early age, I was able to find solace in the idea that I could have my greatest wishes come true in exchange …
While brainstorming ideas for my first blog post, I read a lot of former fellows’ blogs on how certain school experiences around religion were not pleasant. In my first blog post, I wanted to talk about my experience with interfaith education and shed light on how interfaith education is possible while being both fun and …