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An Opportunity for Peace (Eid/Yom Kippur Break Fast)
Eid al-Adha and Yom Kippur overlap once every 33 years, and I was lucky enough to be in Georgetown when both holidays coincided this year. Days before the two holidays, I…
October 23, 2015
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Reestablishing Women’s Importance
When I was a child, my mother told me many stories about the Sahabah (companions of the Prophet), and my favorite was the story of Khadijah. Khadijah was the first wife of the…
October 22, 2015
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An ESCAPE from the Georgetown Bubble
I didn’t realize how much I missed a clear view of the night sky. The first month of my freshman year at Georgetown was so full of friends to make, classes and clubs to start…
October 22, 2015
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#Follow4Follow – An Open Door Companions’ Dinner
As we wait for the Open Door Companions’ Dinner to start, we (the participants) sit and scroll through our phones. Here we are, at a dinner where the main goal is…
October 21, 2015
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The Georgetown Village Well
The concept of a “well talk” intrigued me. I imagined an old well in the middle of a town square, one used constantly by all the villagers. Used for all daily life…
October 8, 2015
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Called to Servant Leadership
Servant leadership. It is a term that we hear from time to time at Georgetown and that probably came up a bit more frequently in the wake of the Pope’s visit to D.C., but what…
October 5, 2015
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Open Door Dinner: Are You Creating Life or is Life Creating You?
The questions are easy enough to anticipate. They come right after I tell people I’m a senior in college. There is only the smallest of hesitations before I hear, “So’…
September 30, 2015
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Be the Light
Do you know what it means to “Be the Light?” The National Jesuit Student Leadership Conference was an amazing opportunity to learn more about the issues facing other…
September 16, 2015
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Come away and rest
The apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught. He said to them, “Come away by yourselves…and rest a while.” People were coming and…
August 20, 2015
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The National Jesuit Student Leadership Conference
On a warm summer evening in Buffalo, New York, I stood with the Georgetown delegation on the observation deck overlooking the Niagara Falls. In the fading light, the…
August 12, 2015