What if hundreds of college campuses asked the same question?
What if people of diverse backgrounds and traditions came together to address issues of social justice in our world?
What if we, DePaul University students, came together to improve education access in Haiti and promoted the UN’s Millennium Development Goals to fellow students and the greater Chicago area?
This “what if” is not a theory or hypothesis; a conjuration or dream. It is a reality. Continue reading
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This article was written by Peter Dziedzic, a sophomore at DePaul, who is pursuing a double major in Religious Studies and English. Peter is the co-President of DePaul Interfaith and member of the Executive Committee of the Better Together Campaign at DePaul University.
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As I write this, I am putting together the last few essential tidbits for my weekend excursion to D.C. for IFYC’s Interfaith Leadership Institute. I am truly excited for this trip not only because I will be able to connect with my fellow DePaul students and brainstorm on how to utilize what we learn in D.C. on campus, but also because we will be exposed to the raw, bustling energy of the growing interfaith movement.
As the program states, we will be trained, as interfaith leaders, on how to mobilize, sustain, and integrate interfaith action and cooperation on our campuses. Our focus, when we come back, will be to promote and integrate our Better Together campaign on campus, because when we set aside our differences and collectively work for the attainment of a common, shared goal, we truly are better together. The Institute will be an exciting experience to gain the training that will be beneficial to integrating interfaith work in our student experience, and I fully intend to come back to DePaul ready to promote interfaith cooperation. Continue reading
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Today’s post is by Nic Cable, a senior at Depaul, pursuing a double major in Religious Studies and Peac, Justice, and Conflict Studies. He is serving his second year as an Interfaith Scholar at DePaul University and is the Director of the Better Together Campaign at this institution.
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My name is Nic Cable and I am fellow with the Interfaith Youth Core’s Fellows Alliance. I wanted to share with you what that means for both its implications on DePaul University and the greater world. This historic university is nationally recognized for its extensive interfaith work in dialogue and service. As an IFYC fellow, I am charged with raising this amazing interfaith work to the next level through building sustainable structures and programs that will foster an environment for interfaith cooperation on this campus. Continue reading
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This article was written by Peter Dziedzic, a sophomore at DePaul, who is pursuing a double major in Religious Studies and English. Peter is the co-President of DePaul Interfaith and member of the Executive Committee of the Better Together Campaign at DePaul University. Follow Peter on Twitter.
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Greetings of Peace to all. My name is Peter Dziedzic, a sophomore working for a double major in Religious Studies and English, and I will be a regular guest blogger as we progress through our Better Together campaign work here at DePaul University.
The Better Together campaign, which has come to DePaul University as an effort initiated by the Interfaith Youth Core’s DePaul campus Fellow, Nicolas Cable, is an effort for us to build bridges between our campus communities and find that, when we reflect deeply, we all can benefit greatly from promoting interfaith understanding and recognizing the value inherent in all religious traditions and believers. Our work for the Better Together campaign this year will be to promote social action and social justice initiatives here on campus, mainly, by working with the Living Wage Campaign and the DePaul Committee for Social Justice (DCSJ) to promote events that recognize our common and shared desire for human dignity and human rights. Continue reading
In just a few weeks, I will no longer have the pleasure of calling DePaul University my place of residence. In just a few weeks, I will be a college graduate who can say that I am living in the “real world”. In just a few weeks, I will have more questions to answer, questions that I have constructed in the place that has been more than my residence but has truly been my home. Continue reading
DePaul University resides in the center of one of the largest cities in the United States. Home to over 25,000 students from various backgrounds and places, it is hailed as one of the most diverse student bodies, based on its broad racial, ethnic and socio-economic demographics, among other private universities in this nation. DePaul University is truly a symbol of our country’s motto: E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one). But, there are some concerns that exist in the hearts of students and even faculty and staff, at the university, that DePaul students are not participating in the available resources. Continue reading
Over the past few decades, America has clearly undergone a religious and cultural redefinition. This is evident everywhere we look; there are cultural centers for many countries in nearly every major city, as well as, diverse religious communities adjacent to each other all across this nation. Although America is the most ideologically diverse country in the world, it is far from the most pluralistic. Pluralism is a term Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Director of The Pluralism Project at Harvard University, describes in four parts: Continue reading
The DePaul University Student Interfaith Council is dedicated to the university’s rich tradition of diversity and inclusion.
As an Interfaith Council, we are enthusiastic to partake in the growing interfaith movement around the world. Mindful of our close global interconnections, we collectively reach out with our hands, hearts, minds, and spirits, so as to dissolve the conflicts born of misunderstood differences. Confidently, we embrace, celebrate, and seek to understand the similarities of the human experience as a way of strengthening our own faith commitment. Continue reading
Inspired by the goal of seeing interfaith dialogue flourish and exploring the differences between faith traditions on campus, the idea of a Student Interfaith Council was born over a year ago in the fall of 2005. With much thought and planning, the first Student Interfaith Council Meeting was held a year later in the fall of 2006. Continue reading