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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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Celebration of Eid al-Fitr
Eid al-Fitr means the celebration of the end of Ramadan and giving donations to those in need in the community, which are called Fitrana. The significance of this holiday is to celebrate the...
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The Art of Islam
When I began reading From the Stage to the Prayer Mat by Rabia Christine Brodbeck, I expected it to be an autobiography, with its main context the life story of the author. Instead, I soon found that...
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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 Beauty of Paradise
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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A Light in the Abyss
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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Patience Rewards
It was already 7:30 a.m. I was about to be late for school. My mom had been calling me, worried that I might miss breakfast. I still had to comb my hair and was frantically looking for my brush. My...
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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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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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The Light Within
The television screams the latest headline with urgent tenacity. It feels like my world is crumbling before my eyes. Surely, all this bloodshed, this hatred, this intolerance, cannot be my religion,...
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Powerful Patience
Flickering streetlights streamed into my aunt’s bedroom as she hushed my cries with gentle strokes, tucking me into a sea of white linen. It was my first time sleeping at her house. My aunt, who had...
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Sailing Through a Storm
The waves crashed softly against the boat, pushing it towards the shore. My grandfather stepped off the boat and tied the rope to the dock. That day my grandfather was going to teach me how to sail....
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