Eboo Patel
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President, Interfaith America. Follow @InterfaithUSA. Author, ‘We Need To Build’. Podcast: https://t.co/aQhOpTapZr. [email protected]
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Joined July 2010
Opinion: New biopic shows the importance of authenticity as the nonprofit sector faces an existential reckoning, writes @EbooPatel. https://t.co/S5Cp8xhEWP Patel, the founder and president of @interfaithusa, is the author of “We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy”
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The latest edition of The Catalyst: A Journal of Ideas from the Bush Institute illustrates the various ways in which a vital abstract concept, pluralism, plays out in American life today. In a series of essays and interviews, Profiles in Pluralism highlights @PearceGodwin ,
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New pieces from @NicBibSed @EbooPatel @KnoxThames in a new @TheBushCenter Catalyst special issue on pluralism. Despite all the drama, our universities are still the envy of the world--and they should be “laboratories and launching pads for pluralism..." https://t.co/4AtUwDgmcT
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Opinion: In chaotic times, volunteering remains a potent force for connection, transformation, and hope, writes opinion columnist @EbooPatel. https://t.co/WKat7ufxC9 Patel, the founder and president of @interfaithusa, is the author of “We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse
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“Let’s recommit to the work of being a people”, writes my friend and @interfaithusa colleague @theRevAdam. That begins with widening our welcome and strengthening our bonds. In @RNS
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(RNS) — Patriotism is not possession. It’s participation.
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Watched the #TopChef2025 finale? What an awesome depiction of diversity as a treasure and identity as a source of pride. All of it makes the American potluck more delicious. This is what #DEI should be. More in my OpEd for @Philanthropy
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The long-running show offers lessons on how to reframe diversity initiatives so they unite rather than divide.
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My friend and @interfaithusa colleague @theRevAdam on how hard, and important, it is to achieve unum. It’s the difference between coexistence and chaos. In @Deseret
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Invoking unity is a bold act. It takes guts to say, “We still belong to each other,” especially when everything around us screams otherwise.
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Thanks @MichaelWylandSD
‘Top Chef’s’ Recipe for Making DEI More Palatable https://t.co/G6b2Aw69IR
@Philanthropy @EbooPatel gets it pretty right - again. The keys to his op-ed are: 1) participation is voluntary, not compelled; and 2) diversity ion Top Chef is framed in an inherently meritocratic
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@emmaogreen, journalist @NewYorker and @EbooPatel, founder of @interfaithusa, discuss the genesis of DEI, where it went wrong, and what might replace it in our search to create a flourishing multicultural society.
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Smart smart piece @JohnInazu . Love that you quoted: “As scholars and educational officers, they should remember that the public may judge their profession and their institution by their utterances. Hence they … should show respect for the opinions of others …”
Colleges and universities have shown little introspection as to how those of us in higher education might be part of the problem. Perhaps we are contributorily negligent to creating the political culture that makes these vicious attacks possible.
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I love that the metaphor of university as gym is getting around. @VanJones68 used it @UChiPolitics in 2020, and more recently @interfaithusa conference in March. May it spread.
This metaphor was introduced to me by my Kennedy School colleague Tarek Masoud.
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Great video from @arthurbrooks , using @VanJones68 metaphor that the university should be like a gym where we build our intellectual muscles for warmhearted conversation between people of diverse identities and divergent ideologies:
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When students aren’t challenged intellectually, they become weaker and less able to engage with different perspectives. That weakness fuels polarization and anxiety. A university should be like a...
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Remembering Pope Francis @paddygilgersj @KerryAlys @KrisanneVMurphy @MichaelSWinters @EJDionne @tylersyck @EbooPatel @AnnaRowlands1 @StephenOkey @brianroewe @bugideas @FrGregBoyle
https://t.co/ZunTEUP4fZ
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How to Remember Pope Francis by Patrick Gilger: “I’ve been asking others what they remember about Pope Francis—not what they think will happen in the long wake that will follow the end of his long …
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I love this @wapo OpEd by my friend @shadihamid on the surge of patriotism he feels upon being ‘welcomed home’ by a U.S. immigration officer at the airport
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‘Welcome home’ from an immigration agent may seem small but it shows what makes great nations
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Our weekend read comes from @emmaogreen on “What Comes After DEI?” Features @EbooPatel
https://t.co/8hqVMYMlky
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Colleges around the country, in the face of legal and political backlash to their diversity programs, are pivoting to an alternative framework known as pluralism, Emma Green reports.
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We’ll, I guess I can’t say that I’m unaware anymore. Thank you for this warm tribute @FaithsOxford - the team @interfaithusa and I are honored by any constructive role we have an opportunity to play in advancing pluralism and interfaith cooperation. Congrats on your award.
Presentation and Celebration of the 2024 #GuruNanak #Interfaith #Prize was a perfect opportunity to pay tribute to Interfaith Guru @EbooPatel❗️ An extract from Dr Gomelauri's Acceptance Speech: "Before Oxford Interfaith Forum, there was Dr Eboo Patel. . . I was struck by the "⬇️
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My friend @RadioFreeAsha constantly innovating @GivingTuesday to strengthen civil society and increase generosity, excellent piece in @Philanthropy by @DrewLindsayCOP
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The organization behind the annual post-Thanksgiving giving spree wants to help nonprofits and foundations create fundraising drives nationwide to help groups raise cash — and earn trust.
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Excellent @WSJ OpEd by @mroth78 - education means people from a variety of identities collectively discussing a diversity of perspectives and constantly seeking better explanatory frameworks. It does not mean ideological auditors on campus.
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Left-wing orthodoxy has stifled campus debate, but replacing it with right-wing litmus tests wouldn’t be an improvement, writes university president Michael S. Roth.
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Interfaith America founder @EbooPatel, a Muslim, has found pluralist inspiration in the writing and actions of many Catholic theologians and leaders — none more than Pope Francis, he writes for #TheCommons this week. https://t.co/gSEqjVQ5BQ
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My friend @theRevAdam CEO of @interfaithusa writes a beautiful reflection on the interfaith bridgebuilding and outreach to the periphery that characterized the papacy of #PopeFrancis for @Deseret
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People of all traditions and none are mourning Pope Francis — not just because a pope has died, but because a peacemaker has passed
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