By Bill Aiken, former IFC Board member My first encounter with the IFC was on an early spring evening in the mid-1990’s, when I attended a springtime interfaith dialogue organized by the IFC on the campus of Howard University. There…
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By Bill Aiken, former IFC Board member My first encounter with the IFC was on an early spring evening in the mid-1990’s, when I attended a springtime interfaith dialogue organized by the IFC on the campus of Howard University. There…
By Mandana Dehghanian, IFC Board Member “I don’t know” was my response to my son, when he asked, “What happens when someone dies?” What happens after death? Where do we go? Are we just worm meal?” I don’t know. No…
By Rabbi Gerry Serotta, Former Executive Director, IFC This year 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the IFC Unity Walk. Living in Washington, DC, we sometimes take for granted that we can walk down a main thoroughfare of our…
From my perspective, faith based conversations, events and collaborations have almost always involved men making the decisions and setting the agenda. Majority of the time, women weren’t consulted or were considered lower tiered personnel who didn’t have a…
By Anne Golightly, IFC Board Member For nearly the past three years, as a member of the Temple Open House planning committee of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I’ve been inviting people in the metro area to…
I am a practicing Sikh, mother of two young adults, and a MD based Montessori educator. Life’s Progress directed inner work has been a subject of perennial interest for me. We all are living a fast paced life…
Growth occurs most often when there is pain. I don’t think I would be mistaken by suggesting that every language and culture has a saying or phrase that reflects this reality. In English, it is said “No pain no gain”.…
(Photos of Church of St. John the Baptist, Jerusalem, taken by the author) One cherished interfaith experience occurred when I spent a semester studying at Brigham Young University’s Jerusalem Center For Near Eastern Studies. One day a group of five…
Each generation has its moments of historical reckoning that we remember and will never forget. Think for a moment about the momentous events that defined your life. Where were you, and who were you, when the world changed? In the…
By Bill Aiken June has arrived (along with a lot of noisy cicadas). A difficult school year is coming to a close as we emerge (like the cicadas?) from a lengthy underground hiatus brought on by the Covid pandemic. We…