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…
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…
I will always remember what my mother told me before I started applying for my first internship. She said, “Izzy, a good internship provides you with experiences, lessons, and tools you’ll need to get a full-time gig in the future,…
Most mornings I wake up early with a spring in my step, and head to our local Gurdwara (Sikh Temple) with my son Harvi. When we arrive we start by washing our hands and taking our places six feet apart…
As a hospital chaplain I begin every morning in the neonatal ICU. There are the most precious newborns, many less than 2 pounds born prematurely struggling for life. Their bodies are breathtakingly small and one tries to…
It is an odd season for religious ritual. We can’t gather in person, we’re having to combine traditional practices with 21st century technology, and we’re scrambling to make meaning from the present moment in the context of our ancient stories.…
I have lived most of my life in small town Virginia and have taken public transportation only a handful of times in my life, and almost certainly never alone. After living in DC these past few months, I soon learned…
I have the great privilege of spending a month every summer on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness area in Northern Minnesota. We have a simple family cabin located on National Forest Service land that is “off-the-grid” with…
I take the Red Line coming back home and I get off at Union Station. I am just one of the many of thousands who get off at that stop. You always interact, or at least pass by a variety…