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Thanksliving – It’s the New Thanksgiving

Gratitude was a big theme at Campus Ministry’s annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Dinner—an event I’d been looking forward to ever since the first pumpkins started cropping up…

December 7, 2015

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Love in the Margins

Seventeen Georgetown students representing three schools (MSB students, we’re still looking for you!), two Center for Social Justice vans and one bridge is one way to…

December 3, 2015

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All the Senses: A Jewish Life Retreat Reflection

Friday nights at Georgetown are rarely quiet. Academic hubs by day become gathering spots for bumping parties, speakers and events. Every Friday—while many other Hoyas…

November 20, 2015

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At Campus Vigils, Community Reflects

Around 250 students and community members gathered in remembrance of the victims of last week’s terror attacks in Paris, Beirut and Baghdad at an interfaith prayer vigil held…

November 17, 2015

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A Pastoral Letter to the Georgetown Community

To the Georgetown Faith Communities: Racial intolerance and discrimination are significant realities in many students’ experience at universities across the country. The…

November 13, 2015

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Always Moving Forward: Reflections on the Dahlgren Cross

By allowing two other students and me (as students regularly involved with the Catholic night mass community) to deliver the Dahlgren Cross to the Basilica of the National Shrine…

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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Reclaiming Holiday Spirit

What does holiday spirit feel like? Thirteen years ago, as a young girl in the middle of a thriving Muslim community in Mobile, Alabama, I could have given you a detailed answer.…

October 22, 2015

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Pope Francis Addresses Congress

From the moment it was announced that Pope Francis would be coming to DC in the fall of 2015, my heart filled with joy knowing that I would be in the same city as the leader of…

October 22, 2015

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An Invitation to Dinner with a Prophet

Last month’s Dinner with a Prophet focused on the role of Maryam and her mother. Maryam’s mother wanted a boy, so he would serve Jerusalem. When she gave birth to…

October 22, 2015