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And venture into the basement corner to care for them. — Gracie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/e75ee106-a1f6-42cf-b635-f73038a40cf7/Screenshot_20240115_211555.png Blog Archives - Encountering New Perspectives at Dartmouth College’s First Interfaith Photovoice Exhibit - Make it stand out The Sign “Have they not then looked at the sky above them: how We built it and adorned it with stars, leaving it flawless?” (Qur’an 50:6). The Islamic perspective on proving the existence of God has been to look around us as there are numerous signs for those who want to see them. For me personally the night sky is always a reminder of God. “Beauty will save the world” (Dostoevsky). I find meaning and beauty in the night sky. I think that we live in the ingratitude of the beauty around us. If we just stop and look even a little beyond our own selfish obsessions of life, we will find beauty too mesmerizing to comprehend. Witnessing that level of beauty is truly a spiritual experience. — Ahmad https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/diversity-dialogue-interfaith-engagement-intern monthly 0.5 2024-02-21 https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/the-power-of-interfaith-inclusion monthly 0.5 2024-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/c4a9890a-7441-43d9-82b2-09ecfa3053d2/image2.png Blog Archives - The Power of Interfaith Inclusion&nbsp; - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/d54b6a0b-2e63-4290-a227-ccf2d41a732c/image3.png Blog Archives - The Power of Interfaith Inclusion&nbsp; - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/859f54c2-9e0a-43c5-ad5f-2ea5f0bedec2/image4.png Blog Archives - The Power of Interfaith Inclusion&nbsp; - 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The Power of the Human Face in Photography - Make it stand out One of the most famous and influential close-ups in the history of film: the tears of the titular saint in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/the-five-finalists-for-the-parliament-of-world-religions-photo-contest monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/5d3a4549-1e3b-4768-bf3e-c75bef5fc9c4/hizol.png Blog Archives - The Five Finalists for the Parliament of World Religions Photo Contest - Make it stand out Vote for Didarul’s photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/dfd0a7b6-de64-42d2-b4b3-42557481476e/Confessional.png Blog Archives - The Five Finalists for the Parliament of World Religions Photo Contest - Make it stand out Vote for Xenia’s photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ecd7cb11-5e6b-4758-aaa6-cb5db1168b11/6492180849e79-AmidsttheChaosThereisStillHope.jpg Blog Archives - 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Head of the Royal Arch trail in Chautauqua Park, Boulder, CO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/6c2cb376-0d2f-4649-83ab-51677ad5f83c/IMG_9283%2B%28cropped%29.jpg Blog Archives - Photovoice as an Everyday Activity - Make it stand out Photo 2. We all made it to the top of the trail at 7,000 ft. elevation. The baby was crying, needing a feeding, so we did not get the chance to take a group picture, but this is me after our 2-hour hike up before descending together. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/enlarging-our-frame-lessons-learned-by-a-first-time-photovoice-facilitator monthly 0.5 2024-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/4a698e23-1196-4d82-9926-595993fc0bb0/Screenshot%2B2022-10-25%2B152003.png Blog Archives - Enlarging Our Frame: Lessons Learned by a First-Time Photovoice Facilitator - Make it stand out Photo 1. Small group participants sharing the stories from each of their experiences that reflect the “Wheat and Weeds” of their international student experiences at Hope College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/08e0849e-d39b-43f7-b2d4-b111230099d9/Screenshot%2B2022-10-25%2B152108.png Blog Archives - Enlarging Our Frame: Lessons Learned by a First-Time Photovoice Facilitator - Photo 2. Individual participants’ photos during the large group discussion. Photo 2. Individual participants’ photos during the large group discussion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/a0caf6d8-4bae-476f-903a-815956b9b95a/Screenshot%2B2022-10-25%2B152142.png Blog Archives - Enlarging Our Frame: Lessons Learned by a First-Time Photovoice Facilitator - Make it stand out Photo 3. Thematic layout of images set by participants as a group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f23d3e43-7b8c-48e6-9c26-4d40af27c28e/Screenshot%2B2022-10-25%2B152207+%281%29.png Blog Archives - Enlarging Our Frame: Lessons Learned by a First-Time Photovoice Facilitator - Make it stand out Photo 4. Three participants viewing photos grouped by theme during the large group discussion. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/interfaith-photovoice-through-the-lenses-of-our-interns monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/63a4663a-f0b5-41e2-8cf2-5374425973e2/Calvin%2BIntern%2BPV%2B7.jpg Blog Archives - Interfaith Photovoice Through the Lenses of Our Interns - Make it stand out Photo 1. Jenna Allman shares the story behind her photo as the small group listens and asks questions during the interns’ photovoice project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/adfb4a43-3a88-4972-adba-7c282de73b99/Calvin%2BIntern%2BPV%2B4.jpg Blog Archives - Interfaith Photovoice Through the Lenses of Our Interns - Photo 2. Amy Miller shares the story behind the photo she is holding with the other interns during their photovoice project. Communicating IFPV’s Work Engaging in interfaith as an academic discipline directly impacts the applied communications side of interfaith work. We took what we were studying and made it engaging to our public audience on all of our social media platforms, trying to make content accessible and relevant to everyone, regardless of academic background or religious tradition. We did this by highlighting recent religion news and sharing how interfaith engagement has impacted real people who have been involved with our organization and others. Through our communications work, we learned that participating in social media dialogue requires an extra amount of care and thought due to the clear distance between posts and those who view them. When addressing sensitive issues, like religious persecution or doctrinal disagreements, we use the same etiquette and respect established in Interfaith Photovoice meetings to further welcome different worldviews and cultures, even within something as seemingly simple as sharing a news link. We seek to understand, recognize the identities and beliefs of every person involved, and tell the stories from the perspective of the persons the story concerns. The words we use matter, and they especially matter when we are trying to communicate complex ideas to people with different beliefs or life experiences; the words we use matter so that sharing the stories of interfaith today can be meaningful for everyone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/6935658f-e8b3-41ee-a708-2cf25327ae00/Calvin%2BIntern%2BPV%2B2+%281%29.jpg Blog Archives - Interfaith Photovoice Through the Lenses of Our Interns - Photo 3. Delaney Sall shares about her experience at Interfaith America’s annual conference in Chicago. A typical Interfaith Photovoice project consists of a group of individuals with different religious identities. Although the members of our photovoice project all identified with the Christian tradition in some way, we represented multiple different denominations and had experienced faith in different ways. One of us noted: “We have learned more about each other in just these ten hours of photovoice meetings than I learned about my coworkers I worked with all summer.” Discussing things like faith in everyday life and our challenges to living out faith invited us to practice a level of vulnerability and trust with one another which helped us to develop deeper relationships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/3c24c9c5-55f3-4014-a1a1-a7996ba3ee4e/Calvin%2BIntern%2BPV%2B1.jpg Blog Archives - Interfaith Photovoice Through the Lenses of Our Interns - Photo 4. In the final photovoice project meeting, interns discuss the themes of photos that most consistently showed up as a group throughout the whole project. This mutual vulnerability we experienced during our photovoice sessions struck us as especially powerful because it is not something we have often encountered in faith-based settings. For some, church is a place to gather and worship but not necessarily a place to express struggles and doubts. It seems that, while Interfaith Photovoice focuses on building relationships across different religions, photovoice could be just as powerful within religious traditions. Photovoice gave us insight into how quickly vulnerability makes community grow—branching across gaps and differences in experience to create a space that feels therapeutic and safe. The relationships that emerge from photovoice provide a basis for enacting institutional change by equipping participants with the tools they need to engage with one another in a constructive and compassionate manner. These tools are valuable in any context—from workplaces to religious institutions to personal relationships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/bd205f28-10b5-4c71-8718-1ca28d753878/Calvin%2BIntern%2B11+%281%29.jpg Blog Archives - Interfaith Photovoice Through the Lenses of Our Interns - Make it stand out Photo 5. Interns curate their photos based on chosen themes and determine which photos best represent the change they hope to see in their communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/20ab743c-1977-4eed-80d2-f864ae895e57/Summer%2B2022%2BGroup%2BIntern%2BPic.jpg Blog Archives - Interfaith Photovoice Through the Lenses of Our Interns - Make it stand out Photo 6. From left to right stands Amy, Miller, Jessica Reece, Delaney Sall, and Jenna Allman. Jessica, our Civic Media Specialist, led these three college students in our summer internship program. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/what-does-spirituality-look-like monthly 0.5 2024-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/3be813e7-5194-490a-9717-e047cdcbb304/Screenshot%2B2022-07-06%2B164253.png Blog Archives - What Does Spirituality Look Like? - Make it stand out Photo 1. Commentary on this drawing from Roberta, a study participant: “I guess I kind of interpreted it as being sort of at peace and being relaxed and able to reflect, so I had myself sort of lying in the field, and lying down, and my hands up behind my head, and I’m just kind of looking up hopefully with a sort of a contemplative look on my face. And it’s nice out. A little cloudy, but sunny. And that's kind of how I interpreted it. . . Maybe contemplating, and I don’t know if I used it when I was describing, but also being more self-aware and able to reflect on things that are meaningful to me.” —Roberta S., 64, Boston (Religious, Not Spiritual). https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/helpful-interruptions-seeing-others monthly 0.5 2024-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/c2bf8d41-1e87-431d-9c3f-af64e7fe9070/4O8A0792%2B3+%281%29.jpg Blog Archives - Helpful Interruptions: Seeing Others - Make it stand out Photo 1. Small group conversation during our first photovoice project in Grand Rapids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/89cfde85-7775-4e37-a2ca-c0fd884f9c7f/4O8A0848%2B2.jpg Blog Archives - Helpful Interruptions: Seeing Others - Make it stand out Photo 2. Participants organizing and reflecting on final photos for the exhibition in Grand Rapids. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/photovoice-across-cultures-lessons-from-omannbsp monthly 0.5 2024-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/8eb28b5a-6f75-4e0e-9e32-4eab187a4896/2021-02%2BOman%2BBlog%2BPhoto%2B1.jpeg Blog Archives - Photovoice Across Cultures: Lessons From Oman&nbsp; - Make it stand out Photo 1. A Muslim participant sharing a photograph in a small group comprising people from different cultures and religions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/5b3c36b0-650d-4616-b71d-96ca14da276c/2021-02%2BOman%2BBlog%2BPhoto%2B2.jpeg Blog Archives - Photovoice Across Cultures: Lessons From Oman&nbsp; - Make it stand out Photo 2. Participants curated their artwork into a collection of pieces that could be used in the exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/4fd5c0ff-a16c-45cb-897d-754233ebb470/2022-02%2BOman%2BBlog%2BPhoto%2B3.jpg Blog Archives - Photovoice Across Cultures: Lessons From Oman&nbsp; - Make it stand out Photo 3. The Interfaith Photovoice exhibition (left) during Oman’s International Day of Tolerance in Muscat (November 16, 2021). https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/through-one-anothers-lenses monthly 0.5 2024-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1677085491164-1K2JU0AZI43LX9S2E8FX/IFPV-RIC-RRW-Photo-2018-0220-1%2B%281%29.jpeg Blog Archives - Through One Another's Lenses - Participants discussing their photographs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1677085492468-RPVCOENLC5ROZL0JWGO7/IFPV-RIC-RRW-Photo-2018-0307-16.jpeg Blog Archives - Through One Another's Lenses - Participants using sticky notes to collect and organize their ideas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1677085492391-F2D399J8QYLAU419SI9E/IFPV-RIC-RRW-Photo-2018-0320-19.jpeg Blog Archives - Through One Another's Lenses - Participants deliberating over photographs during the final meeting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1677085491047-NXFR6S307ZTW932XF67A/IFPV-RIC-RRW-Photo-2018-0320-77.jpeg Blog Archives - Through One Another's Lenses - The process of curating images was highly collaborative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f2d146c5-2cb7-48ab-be0d-1933fbff2c27/IFPV-RIC-RRW-Photo-2018-0504-22.jpeg Blog Archives - Through One Another's Lenses - Make it stand out Interfaith Photovoice Exhibition opening at the Richmond Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/3637c295-3c66-43ec-9d0d-6859c26a7859/Screenshot%2B2022-01-12%2B151959.png Blog Archives - Through One Another's Lenses - Make it stand out Christians may not be aware of the challenges Muslims face in finding places to dine out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/cc2a37f2-32b8-4907-8a9a-588dacd59ac9/Screenshot%2B2022-01-12%2B151633.png Blog Archives - Through One Another's Lenses - A wudhu friendly bathroom. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/interfaith-photovoice-an-example-of-muslim-christian-engagement-in-canada monthly 0.5 2024-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1b4d4f91-876b-421e-b090-223d38ab7c61/Photovoice2018-71.jpg Blog Archives - Interfaith Photovoice: an Example of Muslim-Christian Engagement in Canada - Make it stand out FIGURE 1. IPFV Fredericton Exhibition at the University of New Brunswick Art Gallery. Photo credit: Denise Rowe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/2b9c3486-b3d3-453e-9cae-cfb8be54d4ee/2BP4%2B%281%29.jpg Blog Archives - Interfaith Photovoice: an Example of Muslim-Christian Engagement in Canada - Make it stand out FIGURE 2. Despite having screens and lights, contemporary church is still a sacred and special place to meet with God. (Brandon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/bfe4fc00-7409-4a17-abc2-594ff4faca77/ER5.jpg Blog Archives - Interfaith Photovoice: an Example of Muslim-Christian Engagement in Canada - FIGURE 3. This is my church. If you look at the bottom right, you’ll see a paper airplane – a reminder of new life in an old, traditional space. (Emma) The participants are fully aware that there are differences between the religious practices, objects and beliefs of Muslims and Christians but in the individual interviews all of them spoke to Holtmann about how through the \Fredericton IFPV project they learned that they hold much in common. In the interviews, several of the participants spoke about how the photovoice process shed light on the shared struggles that Muslim and Christian women encounter in public when clothing symbolises their religious commitments. For the Muslim women, all of whom wear the hijab, they learned that some Pentecostal women from Fredericton choose to wear long skirts and not cut their hair for reasons of faith and that they face discrimination for these choices. I’ve heard like negative comments and stuff. And even like, I’m the only one in my family who’s Pentecostal and I’ve, even people in my life have said stuff about Pentecostals like, “They don’t, they don’t look that flattering” just because of what they wear. And I’ve heard other people say stuff or they’ll identify them as like, the Holy Rollers or something like that, make jokes like that. (Brandon) Some woman [at the exhibition] like she said to me, “We [Pentecostals] have to wear a long dress until here and cover all the body, but she didn’t like wear a hijab they just do it like … [Holtmann: Put their hair up?] Yes. That’s new for me. (Abeer) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/fa52a82f-8586-428f-ae91-e231ee41f1f0/3AK4.jpg Blog Archives - Interfaith Photovoice: an Example of Muslim-Christian Engagement in Canada - Make it stand out FIGURE 4. The Muslims in Fredericton need a bigger mosque in which to pray in a special way. (Abeer) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/2c6b34a3-8189-4c93-b254-c609d1e7df1f/Screenshot%2B2021-12-22%2B182346.png Blog Archives - Interfaith Photovoice: an Example of Muslim-Christian Engagement in Canada - FIGURE 5. The holy place of Mekkah is a prominent symbol for Muslims. (Widad) Salsabel describes the IFPV participants as ‘all happy together’ as a result of discussing the challenges and opportunities that arose for them as Christian and Muslim students, including the Muslim women’s choice to wear the hijab. Her interaction with people who attended the opening of the IFPV exhibition at the university art gallery provided her with further proof that other non-Muslims are interested in her experiences and identity. Knowing that the Christian students and other non-Muslims want to better understand her provided a boost to Salsabel’s self confidence and helped her to feel more comfortable. Institutions and Gender In applying a deep equality and intersectional feminist lens to our data, we find differences between how the men and women in our project situate their religious identities relative to secular institutions. For example, male participants tend to express frustration with the lack of religious representation in secular institutions such as universities and government, as well as the reputation of religious institutions in the media. Female participants, on the other hand, while sharing these frustrations, tend to frame them as opportunities to embody and create space as a person of faith in secular or non-religious space (as highlighted in the section on religious and symbolic clothing). Additionally, female participants differ from male participants in their focus on both ideological and pragmatic challenges, such as overpriced halal meat (Figure 11) and the lack of adequate recycling services in Fredericton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ee41ad4c-7c78-4f9e-abc9-cc978ccf2df0/AK2.jpg Blog Archives - Interfaith Photovoice: an Example of Muslim-Christian Engagement in Canada - FIGURE 6. The Qur’an is very important to Muslims. It is important to have one in every home. (Abeer) In a vivid visual example of these gender differences between the two Christian participants, both Brandon and Emma created images of the same building (the provincial Legislative Assembly), but from different angles – in a literal and ideological sense. Brandon uses his image (Figure 12) to highlight his concern over the federal government’s addition to the student summer job grant that requires organisations to agree that they support women’s reproductive rights and freedom from discrimination (including gender identity and sexual orientation) in order to receive funding (Connolly 2018). He feels that this change is unfair to some Christian communities that may oppose those policies on moral grounds and could signify an erosion of religious freedom that these communities feel compelled to oppose. The female Christian participant Emma, on the other hand, submitted an image that she had taken of protestors outside of the Legislative Assembly (Figure 13) during the Fredericton Women’s March, which was conducted in solidarity with the Women’s March in Washington, DC, following Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States. Key issues for the March were defending reproductive and civil rights, including those based on gender identity and sexual orientation (Hartocollis and Alcindor 2017). Emma used her image to highlight her solidarity with these causes as a Christian. While Brandon and Emma problematise their relationship with the government, Brandon saw friction between the government and his faith community as detrimental to religious freedom, whereas Emma labelled creating friction as an act of faith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/55a5b2a6-5b2d-4a27-845d-a11680bfd1ef/3AA1%2B%281%29.jpg Blog Archives - Interfaith Photovoice: an Example of Muslim-Christian Engagement in Canada FIGURE 6. The Qur’an is very important to Muslims. It is important to have one in every home. (Abeer) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/6962558a-de9a-4929-8440-3961bc59a16b/3SA2%2B%281%29.jpg Blog Archives - Interfaith Photovoice: an Example of Muslim-Christian Engagement in Canada - FIGURE 9. My father bought me clothes from another country but I didn’t like their style. (Salsabel) FIGURE 9. My father bought me clothes from another country but I didn’t like their style. (Salsabel) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ccec65c8-aa95-479a-ad3f-63050cb52931/IMG_8402.jpg Blog Archives - Interfaith Photovoice: an Example of Muslim-Christian Engagement in Canada - Make it stand out FIGURE 11. There is a growing demand in grocery stores for a variety of halal meat at reasonable prices. (Widad) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f534ae4f-32c6-41d0-8222-08846bd67bc8/2BP3%2B%281%29.jpg Blog Archives - Interfaith Photovoice: an Example of Muslim-Christian Engagement in Canada - FIGURE 12. Christians currently enjoy religious freedom, however at any time we could lose this freedom as we saw with federal summer grants. It is scary to know of the power that the government has to remove that freedom. (Brandon) Discussion The goals of the broader Interfaith Photovoice Initiative include bridging cultural divides, encouraging mutual advocacy, and engaging communities around questions of faith and religious diversity. We discuss the findings of the analysis of visual and interview data from the six university students of the Fredericton IFPV project in light of these goals as they relate to the participants’ concerns regarding barriers to religious freedom and gender equality. Given the small sample size, we are unable to generalise these findings to include the experiences of all Christian and Muslim university students at UNB or other secular universities in Canada. Nevertheless, the findings can be useful for university faculty, staff, administrators, and campus ministers who work with members of these groups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ce65f8f6-1f03-4b81-bda1-dd90a2e7643d/3ER3.jpg Blog Archives - Interfaith Photovoice: an Example of Muslim-Christian Engagement in Canada - FIGURE 13. Part of living my faith as a Christian is speaking truth to power and standing with marginalised people. (Emma) https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/the-gift-of-empathy monthly 0.5 2024-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/8ef41eaf-866d-4952-aaab-35fb7f393e22/Screenshot%2B2021-11-23%2B214256.png Blog Archives - The Gift of Empathy - Make it stand out Photo 1. Mirror neurons: graphic from Three Successful Ways to Practice Empathetic Leadership in the Workplace by Paul Glover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/54ce71c7-3c37-4a28-8ff9-6d1e97719b34/IFPV-RIC-RRW-Photo-2018-0220-4+%281%29.jpg Blog Archives - The Gift of Empathy - Make it stand out Photo 2. Participants from Richmond sharing about challenges they face. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/in-memory-of-elizabeth-austin-tucker monthly 0.5 2024-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/4dea8753-129a-4561-822e-12b5a6337060/Screenshot%2B2021-09-22%2B080719%2B%282%29.png Blog Archives - In Memory of Elizabeth Austin Tucker - Make it stand out Photo 1. Austin shared about her experience with Interfaith Photovoice at the final exhibition of the Richmond project she participated in. This photo is from her interview during the exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/c3261509-e96c-40c3-a017-f5402d2513bc/IFPV-RIC-RRW-Photo-2018-0320-4%2B%282%29.jpeg Blog Archives - In Memory of Elizabeth Austin Tucker - Make it stand out Photo 2. Austin shares about her photograph in her small group during the Richmond project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1586d7a8-715a-4c7e-b226-c327b2718f59/RIC-1-Turn%2B%283%29.jpg Blog Archives - In Memory of Elizabeth Austin Tucker - Photo 3. “Reminded me that not all are equal in the eyes of the law. Discrimination is still so prevalent.” (Austin) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b5867da7-f483-43b0-b1be-040f11ea5120/RIC-3-Cross.jpg Blog Archives - In Memory of Elizabeth Austin Tucker - Photo 4. “The church steeple surrounded by the sun reminded me that even though we sometimes forget, it is possible to see the light of God. Sometimes it breaks into our lives.” (Austin) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/2005ab6c-c67e-4d6f-abb3-aaa661ec0419/IFPV-RIC-RRW-Photo-2018-0320-103%2B%282%29.jpeg Blog Archives - In Memory of Elizabeth Austin Tucker - Make it stand out Photo 5. Austin is standing on the far right, second person in, next to her husband, Bill Sachs. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/sharing-that-cultivates-love monthly 0.5 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/629509d9-d0a6-468c-b233-e82b86dad086/4O8A0793.jpg Blog Archives - Sharing that Cultivates Love - Make it stand out Photo 1. The small group listens as this participant shares her story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1503a3f6-96f4-469d-ad23-4b4d41cb0fbe/IMG_6973%2B%281%29.jpeg Blog Archives - Sharing that Cultivates Love - Photo 2. “It is when we do not know and do not want to know that we become like this tree, scared frozen. When we choose to not know and learn the needs of others, we actually isolate ourselves from knowing and befriending those around us, and the needs of others are not met properly. Lack of understanding creates division, distrust, and enmity between groups and people. Even in our fear, maybe there is a monkey sitting on our shoulder, putting his hand on our head, giving us the compassion and courage to understand. Understanding others takes effort and sacrifice, but I believe it is worth it because it fosters love, compassion, and unity” (Jessica). Jessica wrote these reflections once the project was finished including the new perspective a fellow participant offered. In addition, a number of people made comments to me in response to some of my more vulnerable sharing which encouraged me greatly. One person just affirmed the difficulty of the experience I had shared. This person actually paused while she responded to me, and even that silence with another human being looking at me trying to find the words to respond to what I shared was a healing moment for me, even though I had never known this person before. While she looked at me for that moment I could see her trying to process my experience, lingering on my words, her eyes looking at me ever so slightly. I could feel that what I said impacted her and wondered if part of her understood my experience in her own way. Another person acknowledged sharing similar feelings to me. I felt not only seen and validated but also encouraged and empowered to do something in response to my difficult situation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/0e1b330d-1c93-4ec9-af54-78bfa04efe36/3D50BE8D-606F-47E2-866D-E7D6B3498E22_1_105_c.jpeg Blog Archives - Sharing that Cultivates Love - Make it stand out Photo 3. Everyone carefully “gazes” upon this photo in the middle after a participant shared its meaning. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/what-photos-do monthly 0.5 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/83100464-81b9-4eaa-83b4-7e5c8ad417dd/IFPV-GRR-05-PV-2018-1018-5.jpeg Blog Archives - What Photos Do - Make it stand out Photo 1. “You are my neighbor. You may come from down the street, Jordan, Iraq, Israel, New York, Germany, Norway, India, England, or another part of the world. You are an important part of this world. May we join together and do what we cannot do alone. I am responsible for you” (Angela). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/8a332554-e56c-424b-80dc-0f8278107271/IFPV-GRR-09-PV-2018-1004-5.jpeg Blog Archives - What Photos Do - Photo 2. “Many and various ways to connect to the source of power—and to each other” (Carol). Photographs have a wide range of utility in structured interfaith interactions such as photovoice. Photos help participants start and sustain conversations. They act as an additional form of information that help people to understand unfamiliar objects, activities, and ideas. When someone introduces an image into a conversation, it informs the boundaries of a conversation by helping participants to see what is ‘fair game’ on the basis of what is represented in the frame of the photograph. Differences come into view. As people look intently into other people’s photos, they begin to see aspects of religion in everyday life that may otherwise be overlooked. As the saying attributed to Henri Bergson goes, “The eye only sees what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” While many photographs highlight differences between religious traditions, they also can underscore the ways in which their beliefs overlap, rhyme, and resonate. Likewise, conversations about photos can also lead to the recognition that participants possess a common set of concerns arising from the human condition and experience. To varying degrees a shared sense of purpose bubbles to the surface. Solidarities result. In these ways, photographs are helpful to the photovoice process of learning about the experiences, challenges, and aspirations of people from different religious backgrounds. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/shared-narratives monthly 0.5 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/69a63b65-bf11-49a0-9b97-25fc2b391ef2/9C7B4FA6-651F-40A1-AD62-559A028702B8_1_201_a.jpeg Blog Archives - Shared Narratives - Make it stand out Photo 1. Participants share and discuss their photos in small groups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/d6431e99-d060-4e53-8fe0-7e2ac968b159/196D8239-A971-45D1-8652-D82F20A02DE2_1_105_c+%281%29.jpeg Blog Archives - Shared Narratives - Make it stand out Photo 2. Participants work together to group photos into themes and choose the final photos for the exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/d32ad9a6-f4b9-4347-8358-e2e98cbf01a0/impact.jpeg Blog Archives - Shared Narratives - Photo 3. Interactions while composing a photo of their hands were punctuated with laughter. Once Michelle had a few good photos, the group appeared to be deeply invested in reaching a consensus about which one to use. Israa used our portable photo printer to create a copy of the image that could be posted on the wall. Once on the wall with other images, the hands photo resonated with everyone else in the room even though it was proposed without a title or caption. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/df92c049-f813-4a1d-b826-da81ef3b591e/3D50BE8D-606F-47E2-866D-E7D6B3498E22_1_105_c.jpeg Blog Archives - Shared Narratives - Make it stand out Photo 4. Participants had a deep interest in seeing how Michelle’s photo of their hands looked. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/896330d6-d33d-4bba-bcd1-eee41f16dc4a/RIC-6E-Unity%2B%281%29.jpg Blog Archives - Shared Narratives - Photo 5. Participants taking a photo of their original idea to depict unity. Even though Richmond participants knew the story behind the photograph—indeed, they were the story of the photo—the picture still needed a title and caption for the exhibition. Just as the photo was a collaboration, so were the words that helped to tell its story to a broader audience. Aptly titled “Unity” the group chose passages from the last sermon of the Prophet Mohammed and the Apostle Paul: All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black nor a black has any superiority over white. (Prophet Muhammad, PBUH) There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one . . . . (The Apostle Paul) Not only do these passages anchor the image in deeper meanings, they also represent an important discovery. Just as Muslims and Christians could embrace one another and pursue a goal of unity, their teachings also support this possibility. Not only did Israa, Khalil, Fatima, Olivia, Jessica, and Greg understand what Michelle was trying to do, their collective effort offers evidence for what photovoice may accomplish. Six weeks earlier these young adults did not know one another; by the end of the project they made a collective gesture of solidarity. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/bridging-gaps-building-relationshipsone-photo-at-a-time monthly 0.5 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ae9989b3-0a26-41a2-8325-121aa9d62f6c/RIC-6B-Acceptance%2B%281%29.jpg Blog Archives - Bridging Gaps, Building Relationships—One Photo at a Time - Make it stand out Photo 1. “In reaching out and joining with others—of a different race, different gender, different age, and possibly a different faith—this little girl demonstrates who we, as people of faith, are called to be and shows us how we are called to live in community” (Kathy). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/4763ab5b-e33c-4c6c-83b1-93cdbc1cb4e7/Screenshot%2B2021-08-25%2B094214%2B%282%29.png Blog Archives - Bridging Gaps, Building Relationships—One Photo at a Time - Make it stand out Photo 2. “(Inner)Struggle: Cover or not cover?” (Salwa). https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/the-power-of-common-ground monthly 0.5 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/38f51a8a-e7af-4ca1-8ea6-84ea4571e04b/Screenshot%2B2021-08-18%2B082643%2B%282%29.png Blog Archives - The Power of Common Ground - Photo 1. Aliya’s participant photo with the caption below. “I remember I brought in a picture of flowers. I wanted to bring in a picture of a plant, but I had a bouquet of flowers I had taken a picture of, and I brought that in and I thought, ‘Gosh, everybody else’s picture’s going to be so different from mine, probably,’ right? But I saw a lot of pictures of flowers. I saw pictures of vegetable gardens. I saw pictures of the ocean. It was a lot of nature and I was like, ‘Wow, so I’m not the only crazy person that sees God in nature’” (Aliya). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/449714a1-e07f-46e4-8408-09fae918fa44/RIC-3-Glimpse.jpeg Blog Archives - The Power of Common Ground - Make it stand out Photo 2. “I cannot look at the intricate detail, spectacular beauty, and mind-boggling infinite variety of the natural world and not believe in a loving, generous, and joyful Creator God. How could such an awesome array have come from other than the divine, and how could any element of that creation not hold within it the divine spark of its Creator? To ‘consider the lilies of the field’ is to be filled with awe and gratitude daily—for all of Creation and for the tiny portion God has assigned for me to cultivate and celebrate” (Joani). https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/seeing-below-the-surface monthly 0.5 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1968a892-62ab-4d8e-8209-fb3d244676ca/IFPV-GRR-08-PV-2018-1018-1.jpeg Blog Archives - Seeing Below the Surface - Photo 1. “As a Muslim parent, my job towards my kids is to engender a love for their faith and God, and that’s not easy! Thank goodness for Curious George, who is beloved by all kids across the US. When that little monkey told the world about his little Muslim friend and celebrated Ramadan (Muslim holy month of fasting) together, my kids finally felt that Christmas was not the only holiday worth celebrating! More books and cartoons need to jump on the bandwagon of acceptance.” (Muneeba). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/93e391d8-391e-46d4-a835-8349cff7bf8d/IFPV-GRR-25-PV-2018-1018-5.jpg Blog Archives - Seeing Below the Surface - Photo 2. “This is a picture about a challenge I face with my faith in my daily life. Anytime I meet new people, whether for my job or other purposes, they always put their hands out to shake hands, which is very normal. I have to gently explain that I believe that Muslim women should shake hands with men other than their family” (Nazneen). https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/wheres-waldo monthly 0.5 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/a4209ead-a5d4-41e5-8efd-9543797f143f/3AK5%2B%281%29.jpeg Blog Archives - Where’s Waldo? - Make it stand out Photo 1. Learning to see everyday life through the lens of someone else helps to build understanding and empathy. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/getting-the-picture monthly 0.5 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f9855fbe-e030-4ca9-ad22-f1e9a030b821/3WA8.jpg Blog Archives - Getting the Picture - Photo 1. “Finding alternatives in order to enjoy swimming without breaking the Muslim dress code” (Widad). Photo 1. “Finding alternatives in order to enjoy swimming without breaking the Muslim dress code” (Widad). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ccec65c8-aa95-479a-ad3f-63050cb52931/IMG_8402.jpg Blog Archives - Getting the Picture - Make it stand out Photo 2. “There is a growing demand in grocery stores for a variety of halal meat at reasonable prices” (Widad). https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/when-is-a-photo-worth-a-thousand-words monthly 0.5 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/39695370-77cc-4e21-b07c-d37a1eb09858/2ER5.jpg Blog Archives - When is a Photo Worth a Thousand Words? - Make it stand out Photo 1. Emma used a photo of flooded streets to explore the divides among Christian denominations. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/permission-to-be-curious monthly 0.5 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/c29e2887-c531-4cc9-9f3a-ea810345ec30/4O8A0789.jpeg Blog Archives - Permission to be Curious - Make it stand out Photo 1. One small group sharing their photos around the table at an Interfaith Photovoice project in Grand Rapids. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/finding-common-ground monthly 0.5 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/4e818e9e-9312-4cd0-bc60-b95671da6a51/Sidra%2B2.png Blog Archives - Finding Common Ground - Photo 1. Unity is Power. I always try to share my knowledge with the people around me, so I shared my experience of interfaith photovoice with my community. I have seen a curiosity in different people to learn even more about photovoice and the magic it plays in understanding others. I believe that photovoice can be helpful not only in Pakistan but in any country because it gives everyone involved more than one can expect. Photovoice does not require us to come with a special skill but welcomes us as we are because it is a kind of activity that just needs a camera and does not demand any special skills and tools. Through the process, we learn all we need and grow together as a group. We capture photos to explain our thoughts and beliefs. It gives one much space to think, decide, and capture anything, encouraging us to be creative in the process. Being a Christian, I have always been concerned with my religious values primarily and never thought much of others’ beliefs; since I joined Interfaith Photovoice, I started knowing other faiths. I found that all participants focused on an undivided point: there must be hope for a peaceful society. The core values of every religion were reflected as peace, acceptance, brotherhood, love and harmony. It was an immense pleasure, as well as a surprise, to find that all religions speak similar values. I found that participants from all faiths were ready to serve humanity. All our different ways of serving and all the diversified ideas in photos converged to one single point: peace building. All of us were fed up with hate, revenge, and hypocrisy. We all are in need of a peaceful co-existence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/acb8a1ab-9fe8-4815-81ad-5f9efc0c6444/Sidra%2BSid%2BIMG-20210521-WA0029%2B2.jpg Blog Archives - Finding Common Ground - Make it stand out Photo 2. How different people have come together to work in aid of those in need. from the Pakistan Exhibition. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/framing-conversations monthly 0.5 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/fdd970bb-c998-49ca-95d6-db63e329e52e/IFPV-RIC-RRW-Photo-2018-0312-01.jpg Blog Archives - Framing Conversations - Make it stand out Photo 1. Participants sharing the stories behind their photographs in small groups (project location: Richmond). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/fcb4a615-b6ff-4b44-bd54-6f7f5e61ca84/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-06-22%2Bat%2B2.54.52%2BPM.png Blog Archives - Framing Conversations - Photo 2. “My ring shows how I decided to commit myself to not have sex until marriage and my ring shows my commitment to Him and my promise” —Jessica. When Jessica introduced a photograph of her purity ring as an example of how her beliefs show up in her everyday life, she invited a conversation about what is pictured. It is as though she was saying, “I’m comfortable talking about this topic and you can ask me more-or-less what you want as long as it is relevant to my photograph.” Through their photographs, photovoice participants grant permission to one another to have certain kinds of conversations by using the frame of a photograph to limit the kinds of personal information one discloses. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/connecting-through-photos monthly 0.5 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/443ace56-129b-4aaf-a75b-ef934326746f/IFPV-GRR-23-PV-2018-0927-1.jpeg Blog Archives - Connecting Through Photos - Photo 1. “Where I find faith in daily life” (Robert). Laughter is indeed a positive foundation for interfaith understanding and relationships. Sharing photos and stories about religion in the midst of ordinary aspects of daily life—in food, exercise, children, community service, etc.—help people feel comfortable sharing. And as Kyle put it, this approach can “immediately make you feel connected to the person across the table.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/4d168937-1530-4282-8018-8a5eb29a9d9d/IFPV-RIC-RRW-Photo-2018-0320-41.jpg Blog Archives - Connecting Through Photos - Photo 2. Participants in Richmond, Virginia, laughing as they compose a photograph together. Activity 3 | Who are you? For your work to be effective, you need to learn about the other people in your group and become comfortable using photographs as a way to share stories with one another. To do this, compose a few snapshots you can use to introduce yourself to the other people in your group. (Note: you may want to combine this activity with Activity 2.) Think about the people, places, objects, activities, and ideas that help to define who you are. Compose five photos you would feel comfortable using to introduce yourself. You may want to include one photograph for each category listed above or you may want to focus on a couple of these. Feel free to compose new photos and to select photos already on your camera roll—it is entirely up to you. During your next interfaith photovoice group meeting, be prepared to share your photos and tell the stories behind them. This can happen by showing the photo on your smartphone, tablet, or computer. Some people find it helpful to create a slideshow with their photos. If you create a slideshow it doesn’t need to be anything fancy: just the photos, no words necessary. There is also value in printing the photos and passing them around as you tell the story behind each one. As you progress from person to person in your group, be curious about one another. Ask questions. Look for the ways you are similar and different. And consider the ways religion shows up in these photos and stories; also note the ways it is absent. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/what-is-interfaith-photovoice monthly 0.5 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/a31eb8df-6fc8-4244-9ff2-b898dea4a209/IFPV-RIC-RRW-Photo-2018-0320-107.jpg Blog Archives - What is Interfaith Photovoice? - Photo 1. Curating photographs into an exhibition in Richmond, Virginia. Photo 1. Curating photographs into themes for the exhibition in Richmond, Virginia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1b130848-fef4-4301-b390-ab768220c761/4O8A0790.jpg Blog Archives - What is Interfaith Photovoice? - Activity 1 | Starting the Conversation As you consider the topic of religious diversity and inclusion, who comes to mind as a partner in your journey? This could be a friend, family member, colleague, classmate, or neighbor. It might be just one person or a small group of people. Whoever comes to mind, whether that’s one person or a handful of people, ask them to join you in this journey. Share a link to this blog. Find a time to meet. Discuss your shared interfaith commitments and concerns. Identify a common set of values upon which you can build toward change. Photo 2. Muslims and Christians discussing photographs during an Interfaith Photovoice meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/introduction-religion-diversity-and-inclusion monthly 0.5 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f5d35f6b-9d3b-48cc-999d-c248eecd652d/misunderstanding.jpeg Blog Archives - Religion, Diversity, and Inclusion - Make it stand out Photo 1. Curating photographs into themes for the exhibition in Richmond, Virginia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/64a63e18-c363-4165-95b4-a78716a3c465/impact.jpeg Blog Archives - Religion, Diversity, and Inclusion - Activity 1 | Starting the Conversation As you consider the topic of religious diversity and inclusion, who comes to mind as a partner in your journey? This could be a friend, family member, colleague, classmate, or neighbor. It might be just one person or a small group of people. Whoever comes to mind, whether that’s one person or a handful of people, ask them to join you in this journey. Share a link to this blog. Find a time to meet. Discuss your shared interfaith commitments and concerns. Identify a common set of values upon which you can build toward change. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/blogs/being-seen-as-religious monthly 0.5 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/89476bed-3944-4ecf-ad9b-5c4ea373d94f/3WA4.jpg Blog Archives - Being Seen as Religious - Make it stand out Photo 1. Young girl wearing a tiny witches’ hat atop her hijab as she celebrates Halloween. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f9ac1bad-8e71-4253-82f9-d0a1aef7bb1d/image-asset.jpg Blog Archives - Being Seen as Religious - Make it stand out Photo 2. 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It’s no crystal staircase, but we climb in good company. — Gracie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/7784fcb2-af7e-46f4-897c-3f1831cc7ba2/IMG_6996.png Belief and Belonging at Dartmouth College Gathering around a common table with good food is and always will be enough. Tradition and memory tie us together. — Gracie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b112b54f-43b8-4be5-a3f3-30b91a49ad7c/IMG_8547.png Belief and Belonging at Dartmouth College This photo was taken during my first prayer session at Dartmouth. It expresses my sense of loneliness as a Buddhist while trying to practice it as a minority religion. — Andrew https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/c9d18f63-1deb-4121-a158-666ce2925d58/IMG_8572.jpeg Belief and Belonging at Dartmouth College This photo describes my feeling of holy envy for other faiths. Sometimes I think that Buddhism’s “DIY” journey to enlightenment is daunting and I’d rather get it over with in this life. — Andrew https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/dac7c2f3-9d01-4577-9eff-77a3b0287aac/20240116-Interfaith-Photovoice-kl-5.jpg Belief and Belonging at Dartmouth College https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/20c213f6-6e53-481a-bdf5-d3a4bcbcfaab/IMG20240127WA0012.jpeg Belief and Belonging at Dartmouth College When I went home for a weekend this term, I brought back some vegetarian food that can be easily made into a meal. 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What initially seems like a couple of simple rooms quickly becomes a safe, fun space for exploration and experimentation with radio and alternative forms of communication. — Nico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ae2d8a90-5efb-4751-8d13-870a9923f9b2/Photovoice.jpg Belief and Belonging at Dartmouth College This is a photo of an excerpt of my Google Calendar. It shows my busy schedule and attempt at juggling all of that while keeping my faith alive. — Andrew https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/0e018de1-977c-44b3-873c-0335c132ec1f/PXL_20230903_234759791.png Belief and Belonging at Dartmouth College This is a photo of a poster outside of my room on the 4th floor of Rauner. 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This room on the floor of my residence hall could be a space for meditation, prayer, or yoga. — Lily https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/59efd3bb-2d08-46cc-9713-142ae85b717f/20240116-Interfaith-Photovoice-kl-4.jpg Belief and Belonging at Dartmouth College https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/377cc1fd-6fce-48bf-b29f-f2da2ec3e170/PXL_20240116_015250742.jpg Belief and Belonging at Dartmouth College The stained glass window in this mosque reminded me of some churches within my own Christian tradition. It’s little similarities and gestures like this that can build bridges between different faith communities. — Lily https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/87f501cb-0c51-4eb7-a21c-466d9e334e9c/Screenshot_20240115_211555.png Belief and Belonging at Dartmouth College "Beauty will save the world" ~ Dostoevsky I find meaning and beauty in the night sky. I think that we lives in the ingratitude of the beauty around us. If we just stop and look even a little beyond our own selfish obsessions of life, we will find beauty too mesmerizing to comprehend. Witnessing that level of beauty is truly a spiritual experience. — Ahmad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ccc21346-9896-4823-972f-12ce060c70df/stay_2.jpg Belief and Belonging at Dartmouth College An intricately woven prayer mat used by Muslims for daily prayers. — Ahmad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1d7c9238-aa1b-46df-af6e-1017706ffccd/stay_1.jpg Belief and Belonging at Dartmouth College An exquisite portrayal of the opening verses of the Qur’an, the foundational words that initiated the divine guidance for humanity. I wanted to submit a photo of the Quran and I was very confused. Then I realized that no matter what I submit, it would be equally as good so I picked the first few verses describing God’s qualities and by extension all the values Muslims hold to be the highest. — Ahmad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f3e0ef17-bfcd-4861-8036-453bd045f0a8/20240116-Interfaith-Photovoice-kl-2.jpg Belief and Belonging at Dartmouth College https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/portfolio daily 0.75 2026-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f9399bc9-62b2-42b9-bc80-e3ce0a528934/2024-Kaufman-RRW-72.jpg Portfolio Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/9fbb030d-0bfe-4d1b-a355-1c1f591a4f97/2023-1100-24+Grace.jpeg Portfolio Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/3e00ac9f-8b64-4955-83ec-e6552e6f7201/Mehta-Photo-9.jpg Portfolio Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/40d25747-ac7a-4548-a217-40bbd520715b/IFPV+Web+2027+-+3.jpg Portfolio You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/9de7416b-ef71-43f1-ac4e-2e204cbc0ca7/2025-MNMN-Ashley-Curation-4.jpg Portfolio Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/54f36e4a-3035-472f-945b-69f1d5004d62/IFPV-RIC-RRW-Photo-2018-0320-48.JPG Portfolio The First Ever Photovoice Project for Interfaith Engagement: Richmond, VA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/51ab1c86-898f-497d-bef4-7c8eaf609e5c/Hope+Workshop+-05.jpg Portfolio Seeing with Queer Eyes: LGBTQ Themes in Interfaith Photovoice Projects and Workshops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/20bdf77b-21c1-48d4-bde2-838fb088a800/_O8A0847.JPG Portfolio Muslims and Christians in Community Together: Grand Rapids https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f299b8c0-6548-4439-9f51-ba5de611509e/20240206-Interfaith-Photovoice-kl.jpg Portfolio Belief & Belonging at Dartmouth College https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ea916ce5-54a2-4bc5-8a12-610dff6a2929/2024-Braver+Lens+Hope+2+-+Emmalee+-+4.jpeg Portfolio Hope Through the Lens of American Teens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/84aad4cf-df37-4e35-82e7-ffcc3ef61f00/P2455302-Enhanced-NR.jpg Portfolio Belonging in Interfaith Photovoice Projects and Workshops https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/belonging-portfolio daily 0.75 2026-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/371d319c-30d1-4078-ba23-308a8dc4c340/1.png Glimpses of Belonging Sometimes to be accepted into a group, you have to think the right thoughts, wear the right clothes, know the right people. You have to morph into the right puzzle shape that the group is missing. To belong is to be accepted into the beautiful mosaic of originality and authenticity that is unique to each group of people. To belong is to be embraced for who you already are. — Sarah, Texas Christian University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/8ab3bb69-234e-4bb3-8c92-0fb6b229cd42/RomanWilliams-TriFaith-RRSJ-2024-10.jpg Glimpses of Belonging https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/cf033b47-5612-4458-9b66-567ada870824/2.png Glimpses of Belonging Together we can help lighten the load. — Julie/Finn & Fiona, Idaho https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/d9aee354-7e20-4f07-9d25-c914d2ac99bc/3.png Glimpses of Belonging When I went home for a weekend this term, I brought back some vegetarian food that can be easily made into a meal. There are options like this on campus, but they are slim. — Lily, Dartmouth College https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/06f4b3c8-541b-437c-beb4-c3c5fe3ddc4b/4.png Glimpses of Belonging During our time participating in the photovoice sessions, we discussed the theme of belonging. I chose this photo of the living room of my college house because the house is passed down from previous tenants to guys they’d like to carry the ways of the house on. The house is rugged and accommodating, but it’s been used to host gatherings for friends and classmates forever. My older friends told me they wanted me and my friends living there because we 'fit,' and that’s when I felt I really belonged. — Rutger, University of St. Thomas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/79285502-a5f0-49de-848f-c0845bce3534/IFPV101+-+8.jpg Glimpses of Belonging https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/2ade95ac-838a-4698-a2c1-16692a7ad37f/Omanis+in+the+USA+-+RWilliams+-+41.jpg Glimpses of Belonging https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/051e18bd-8870-4f49-ae14-672a5a13db75/2023-1100-8+Amira.jpeg Glimpses of Belonging Differences are not obstacles if we don’t want them to be. They can be a new window for us to see things from a different angle for humanity to grow and prosper. — Amira (Oman) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/484ea45a-dbd6-4849-b2c7-d0cbe9349e89/5.png Glimpses of Belonging It just says, love your neighbor. It says a lot more. . . . And basically just love your neighbor despite language, culture, whatever. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ded27779-02af-44eb-bdff-d103914e0fff/6.png Glimpses of Belonging As a Muslim parent, my job towards my kids is to engender a love for their faith and God, and that’s not easy! Thank goodness for Curious George, who is beloved by all kids across the US. When that little monkey told the world about his little Muslim friend and celebrated Ramadan (the Muslim holy month of fasting) together, my kids finally felt that Christmas was not the only holiday worth celebrating. More books and cartoons need to jump on this bandwagon of acceptance. — Muneeba, Michigan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b112b54f-43b8-4be5-a3f3-30b91a49ad7c/IMG_8547.png Glimpses of Belonging This photo was taken during my first prayer session at Dartmouth. It expresses my sense of loneliness as a Buddhist while trying to practice it as a minority religion. — Andrew, Dartmouth College https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/portfolio-queer daily 0.75 2026-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/006e9e2e-e1fc-4ba4-a5be-64a2ec4b7c9d/1.png Seeing with Queer Eyes: LGBTQ Themes in Interfaith Photovoice Projects & Workshops Since I realized I was trans, I knew that being rejected by my family was inevitable... It’s been tough coming to terms with holding on to religion in the face of my own family using it against me... Holding onto my religious beliefs has meant taking time to reflect on how my family interpretation of our shared religion doesn’t have to compromise who I am as a Christian or as a queer person. I don’t have to choose one or the other. I can just be me. — Lex, Grand Valley State University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ba027829-8b10-4a7e-ab45-dec040aa637a/2.png Seeing with Queer Eyes: LGBTQ Themes in Interfaith Photovoice Projects & Workshops Holding hands with my love remains one of my safest, scary states. Her hand bound in mine like our hearts intertwine—what safety, assuredness. In this bubble, I am safe. Held. Known. Cherished. But beyond the boundaries of our love and a photos dimensions, the saftey of holding her hand can be wrapped in fear. Are we safe? To be seen as two women in love. Maybe we shouldn’t hold hands? And sometimes we don’t! Sometimes we desire safety of mind and body over the safety we feel in the bubble of our love. That remains one of the greatest tragedies: to find, at last, a love that is safe within out to walk in this world, concerned by those who may fear our love. Holding hands, then, is an act of faith: faith that both we and our world can hold each other in love. Faith that we will learn to hold each other in love better. May it be so that one day, in my love and yours, our only trepidation is that we will lose another's hand to hold. — Alysa, Wisconsin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/afb4f351-f2ad-4ceb-bdd3-1f2de7a93f91/5.png Seeing with Queer Eyes: LGBTQ Themes in Interfaith Photovoice Projects & Workshops A painted stone left on the mailbox post for anyone to find. At the time, my then partner and I were not 'out' to our coworkers, and since E lived on-farm, we'd have to wait until we were around the corner to hold hands.right about where the mailboxes were. Finding the stone made me think that a neighbor had seen us and wanted us to know we're safe and can trust the 'hood to witness our Love. — KNS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/48575448-593b-4b76-82ca-c4fa589ec846/3.png Seeing with Queer Eyes: LGBTQ Themes in Interfaith Photovoice Projects & Workshops I was for many years on a prayer and study commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia about issues of sexuality and gender where one of our most challenging issues was the consecration of Gene Robinson as a bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire. Robinson was known publicly to be a gay man in a same-sex relationship. Bishop Robinson signed a 'Blessing' for me (and a graphic by Keith Haring is included; and the Kentucky Appalachian folk art men). Robinson was born in poverty in Kentucky with defects at birth and not expected to survive or to live a normal life. Dedicating his life work to God, in thanksgiving, would seem to many — throughout human history — to be a natural choice to make. Of course, I am making some puns about what is 'natural' and what is 'normal' since LGBTQ people have often been stereotyped as 'not normal' and 'unnatural.' You might have a different opinion. — Edward, Virginia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/323451c3-3039-4c5a-93f2-5ff0440a0ecb/6.png Seeing with Queer Eyes: LGBTQ Themes in Interfaith Photovoice Projects & Workshops As a queer person, it’s sometimes tough to find religious spaces that feel like they actually accommodate us for all parts of who we are. Finding a church community often means grappling with significant trauma and pain caused by such groups... For those who are considering coming back to a religious space, this pamphlet was just one of the resources for finding local churches and organizations whose doors are open to those of us who have been shut out elsewhere. — Lex, Grand Valley State University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/98ef2ae9-eddd-4ad2-8ebd-3bc6bf6ca3e6/4.png Seeing with Queer Eyes: LGBTQ Themes in Interfaith Photovoice Projects & Workshops If God is real, there is no way that God fits into any binary of what a man is. In my mind, if God is anything that humans can identify and label, God would be a queer figure... — Sarah, Texas Christian University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b661d538-5bfd-47cc-b5c8-62f9ce935acf/edward+-+farmville+sign+300dpi-2.jpg Seeing with Queer Eyes: LGBTQ Themes in Interfaith Photovoice Projects & Workshops In small rural communities many services city folks take for granted don't exist or only happen because volunteers do them, and the social safety net here has many gaps, especially for isolated rural residents and residents with special needs. Volunteers fill as many gaps as possible. Although both political parties have strong leadership here, and put up strong campaigns, that is put aside when we are volunteering to help neighbors. Volunteering is too important to degrade it with politics. My husband and I started picking up litter on daily two or three mile walks (we have safe streets, a lovely mature tree canopy, and numerous trails, including around a 55 acre lake that is home to a cherished community library); and by now we've picked up more than five dumpsters in volume. I published a series in local media with public health, public safety, and public policy observations from the litter we find and we've had countless wonderful conversations along the way, encountering 'Red' and 'Blue' points of view, all focused on making a better community. A Braver Angels Litter Team might be an idea for your community?! — Edward, Virginia https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/portfolio-gvsu daily 0.75 2026-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/5bc54bbb-c72e-472c-8a39-0e095ac6d3f3/RELIGIOUS+%26+SPIRITUAL+PRACTICES.png Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/214ecb7a-720e-4450-80ae-f7b887eddd5d/RELIGIOUS+%26+SPIRITUAL+PRACTICES-3.png Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f07a194d-04bd-42f8-8482-c1293b15a28d/2024-1-Kaufman-Mendu-4-2.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) The Bhagavad Gita is a sacred book for Hindus. I remember participating in the Bhagavad Gita sloka recitation competitions in my childhood. The Bhagavad Gita offers profound insights into personal transformation. It is part of the larger epic, the Mahabharata, and is often called the 'Song of the Lord.' The Gita is a dialogue between Lord Krishna and Arjuna, who grapple with life’s complexities and the morality of war. The Bhagavad Gita is a historical document and a philosophical and spiritual guidebook. It offers a systematic elucidation of life’s terrain, addressing the quintessential queries that plague human existence. The text assumes the persona of a personal mentor, effectively addressing challenges and change. Personally, I find the Bhagavad Gita to be a valuable source of inspiration, guidance, and solace. Its teachings, particularly on duty, selfless action, and the pursuit of inner peace, have been instrumental in shaping my worldview and providing me with a framework to approach life’s challenges. — Sri https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/876ca0a9-a3cf-4eb7-b5d5-0362cfafff1f/2024-19-Kaufman-Fatma-1-6.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) In Islam, observing dietary laws, particularly the consumption of halal meat, is fundamental. “Halal” refers to food that is permissible or lawful according to Islamic law. Halal food, prepared in accordance with religious guidelines, carries immense significance for many followers. Unfortunately, the absence of halal meat options on campus poses a challenge for students like myself who strictly adhere to these dietary restrictions. Despite raising this concern, dining options often provide alternatives such as vegetarian or seafood dishes, which, while appreciated, don’t fully accommodate the dietary needs of those requiring halal meat. This experience underscores the importance of promoting inclusivity and diversity within campus dining services, ensuring that all students have access to food options aligning with their cultural and religious beliefs. —Anam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/8f6bc07c-abe4-4f67-8275-96dc62ade38b/2024-2-Kaufman-Fatma-1-4-2-4.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) The Holy Quran holds a special place in my life as a practicing Muslim. Revealed to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by God, it serves as the center of my faith and a constant source of guidance. Each day, I strive to deepen my understanding of its teachings, which encompass all aspects of life—from matters of faith and practice to moral conduct and interpersonal relationships. Its verses offer invaluable lessons on how to be a better human being, addressing topics ranging from personal conduct and familial relationships to societal ethics and religious obligations like prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, and marriage. This photo captures the essence of the Quran's first lesson, which begins with praise for God and a plea for His guidance—a ritual that forms an integral part of my daily life and spiritual journey. This first lesson is recited in all the prayers, which total 17 obligatory units spread out over five times a day, a practice I faithfully observe. — Anam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/6999e085-814e-46dc-955c-f5c2da5bfc64/2024-20-Kaufman-Larkspur-1-2.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) As a queer person, it’s sometimes tough to find religious spaces that feel like they actually accommodate us for all parts of who we are. Finding a church community often means grappling with significant trauma and pain caused by such groups. As a co-facilitator for a queer-oriented group on campus, I wanted to help provide a processing space where we as queer people could help talk about our experiences with religion and how choosing our spiritual future often means reckoning with our spiritual past. In our club discussion, we emphasized that we have the autonomy to choose how we live our lives going forward; for some that may mean keeping our distance, but for some, we may still want to find a space where our spiritual and gender/sexual identities can exist in harmony. For those who are considering coming back to a religious space, this pamphlet was just one of the resources for finding local churches and organizations whose doors are open to those of us who have been shut out elsewhere. —Lex https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1fd58979-d3df-45ca-a5a1-0968d8e55d8a/2024-Kaufman-RRW-85.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/602a8ea0-601c-461b-8068-538261ad3bfb/2024-21-Kaufman-VanZoest-1-1.JPG Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) I saw this LGBTQIA+ flag on a church when visiting Holland for the first time. I like how it shows that churches individually can decide to support the LGBTQIA+ community, which faces, especially in the outer Grand Rapids area and within Christianity, a lot of resentment. Back in Germany, a LGBTQIA+ flag on a church would not be possible in smaller towns like Holland. —Erasmus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/382ce431-8ece-418c-97b0-7b35f40782d8/2024-3-Kaufman-Mendu-1-4-2.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) Lord Ganesha welcoming customers at the entrance of an Indian restaurant in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a beautiful representation of the cultural significance of this deity in Hinduism. Lord Ganesha, also known as Ganapati or Vinayaka, is the elephant-headed god revered as the remover of obstacles and the god of wisdom. The restaurant has displayed a stunning image of Lord Ganesha, which instantly catches the eye of anyone who enters. The intricate details of the statue, the vibrant colors, and the serene expression on his face create an aura of positivity and auspiciousness. The elephant head represents wisdom, strength, and the ability to overcome obstacles, while the large ears symbolize the importance of listening and understanding. The broken tusk represents sacrifice and the ability to use knowledge for the greater good. It reminds me of the warmth and love of my family in India. — Sri https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1713884274722-D5KBCBV2M5MA8KZJ14E3/2024-Kaufman-RRW-13.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/9ffb9310-0c15-43d3-8463-d38d3a725b09/2024-4-Kaufman-Mendu-3-1.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) This picture captures a moment of profound personal significance as I pray to Lord Shiva during Mahashivaratri after fasting for the entire day. It symbolizes the essence of devotion and austerity that define this sacred occasion, resonating deeply with the spiritual journey it represents. Mahashivaratri holds immense importance in Hindu culture, signifying the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment and the triumph of light over darkness. Through fasting and prayer, devotees seek divine blessings and inner purification, evoking deep emotions of devotion, humility, and spiritual longing. In a world often consumed by material pursuits, this image offers an alternative perspective, reminding us of the importance of connecting with the divine and seeking spiritual fulfillment amidst the chaos of daily life. — Sri https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/693cd89c-cd94-4349-b148-4d84f5a39a70/2024-22-Kaufman-Olson-3-2.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) This photo was of a retreat with other Orthodox Christian college students from around the Midwest. This was a lovely retreat because I felt rather self-confident and secure in my own identity. When I looked at this puzzle, I realized each individual piece had to be complete in order to fit and belong to the larger whole. Perhaps we must also belong within our own completeness which would allow us to belong to a larger whole. — Cecelia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/2b4bdb95-359c-489d-b929-0e4d2563be89/2024-5-Kaufman-Mendu-1-1-2.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) Puja is a religious ritual practiced in many Indian homes, including mine as an Indian living in America. In this ritual, lamps are lit as an offering to the divine. The light from the lamp symbolizes knowledge and the power of the sacred, while the wick represents the ego, and the oil signifies our negative tendencies. When lit by spiritual knowledge, these negative tendencies are gradually eliminated, and the ego eventually perishes. There are various ways of performing puja: light lamps in front of a deity, some in front of the Tulasi plant, and some light lamps at dawn and dusk. The type of oil and wick used also holds significance. For instance, cow's ghee ensures radiance, prosperity, health, and happiness. Similarly, a cotton wick brings prosperity and all good fortune. The chanting of slokas or hymns also accompanies the lighting of the lamp. The shloka "Subham Karoti Kalyanam, Arogyam Dhana Sampadah, Shatru Buddhi Vinashaya, Deepa Jyotir Namostute" is commonly chanted while lighting the lamp, seeking the divine's blessings for prosperity, good health, and the destruction of opposing forces. — Sri https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/540ad69a-fa56-455e-a505-cd249604b716/2024-Kaufman-RRW-37.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/d0cc9553-4c8e-4853-a130-f01fb5e1c183/2024-6-Kaufman-Olson-4-3-2.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) Through Interfaith Photovoice, I was part of many conversations about belonging. Where do I belong or have a home? Lenten bouquets are not an official tradition within the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Christian tradition that I practice, but the color purple is liturgically the color for the time of Lent. While I have been so rooted and comforted to know and believe I belong within my faith and God, that I have a home in those spaces, it occurred to me that I might also make a space for God to have a home within me and my space. — Cecelia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/6094af75-b4f3-437d-b321-ba0d9db0d94f/2024-23-Kaufman-Southwell-4-1.jpeg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) This is the concrete walkway that connects the English buildings to the rest of campus. I make use of it almost every weekday as I shuffle between my English classes in Lake Huron Hall and my history classes in Mackinac. It’s invaluable to me, but it also kind of sucks. In the winter it becomes dangerously slippery and, with as crowded as it gets, I imagine many struggle to even make use of it; I know I did when I walked with a cane for months after breaking my leg. It’s good and I’m glad it exists, but it could be made much better and more accessible, which about sums up my thoughts on GVSU and its campus in general. —Lucas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/a535c2b5-709d-4d35-885d-dfdef2e5d94e/2024-7-Kaufman-Schless-3-1-2.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) Mezuzahs are often found outside of doors in Jewish spaces. They are there as a reminder that you are entering a holy space and should act accordingly. When I am in my hometown, I see many of these. Being in a new environment here at GVSU with not as many Jewish people, I do not see mezuzahs on doors when I am walking in. — Molly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/e4b38b5d-6ad5-475a-8fd3-eb09ac595041/2024-24-Kaufman-Fatma-4-1.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) This poignant image depicts the tranquil moment of sunset, marking the time when Muslims break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan. Despite the demands of classes, navigating through the dusk hours proves challenging as I momentarily leave the classroom to partake in this sacred ritual. Breaking fast is not merely a physical act but a profound spiritual experience, often accompanied by a sense of gratitude and reflection. Following this, the call to prayer resonates, guiding into a moment of devotion and connection with the divine. — Anam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/88baa69a-569a-4131-ac04-299139358759/2024-8-Kaufman-Fatma-1-2.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) This photograph captures a moment of tranquility within one of the Interfaith Reflection Rooms at GVSU, where individuals from diverse backgrounds come together to pray. In Islam, prayer, being the second pillar of the faith, holds significant importance. Muslims adhere to a disciplined practice of praying five times a day, each within specific time windows. There are 17 obligatory units of Salah spread throughout these five daily prayers, and each unit consists of two sajdah (prostrations). This image not only signifies the personal devotion of individuals but also highlights the inclusive environment fostered by the university, providing a space for spiritual reflection and connection regardless of one’s faith tradition. For me, salah (prayer) is a profound experience where I feel deeply connected to God. It’s a time when I am away from all worldly tensions, allowing me to find peace and solace for my soul. Each prostration (sajdah) during prayer brings immense benefits, including physical relaxation, mental clarity, and spiritual elevation. It’s a moment of submission and humility before the Divine, offering a sense of renewal and inner tranquility that carries me through the challenges of daily life. — Anam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/59c1b6cb-1e50-45ee-a39d-850ce80ee831/2024-25-Kaufman-VanZoest-3-1.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) My mother took this picture of me and my brothers in Salzburg, Austria. It was the last vacation we did as a family before I left for the United States, and it reminds me of the importance of family, as I have no family anywhere close to the university. The campus could improve to support incoming and international students better in order to make them feel more welcome and integrated. — Erasmus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/62464343-aeaf-474a-b880-0c31da190f9e/2024-Kaufman-RRW-10.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/9f78758c-6a20-413d-844a-5ad7fd60ba6c/2024-26-Kaufman-Southwell-4-3.jpeg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) That small red smudge is a cardinal that had been resting on the vine covered awning outside the Arboretum. I believe that if you create the space for beauty and love, then beauty and love will flourish. Even if some beautiful things are fleeting, and prone to fly away. The communities we make and participate in while we are at college are often impermanent. Still, their beauty and importance cannot be understated, and more will surely follow in their wake. So long as students are given the space, resources, and freedom to create them. — Lucas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/881f0c26-b881-464e-baea-ed75ad1cb05d/2024-9-Kaufman-Larkspur-3-1.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) Growing up, I didn’t have a lot of exposure to LGBT books, fiction or non-fiction. Every reference was treated with a great deal of sterility and distance if not complete dismissal. So to find out we had an entire little library on campus dedicated to queer literature was beyond wonderful. Everything I had wished I was able to read growing up was right here in one place. To have something like this on campus is such a joy because it means our stories get to be celebrated just like everyone else’s. — Lex https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/43e8eb54-307d-4314-a972-75588a1b3ca0/2024-27-Kaufman-Southwell-3-2.jpeg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) This is my Chimarrão mug next to my backyard fireplace. Chimarrão is a indigenous tea from my home region of south Brasil; it’s immensely popular and is often shared and passed around at parties and other gatherings. For me, it represents what I most value from the communities I grew up in and the ones I’ve found and created since then, which is the opportunity to sit around, drink, and talk with a group of friends who I love and love me in return. — Lucas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/a0d42dc0-297d-4a2b-8b87-ae3b0ae5adfc/RELIGIOUS+%26+SPIRITUAL+PRACTICES-2.png Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/4d349b85-6721-412c-8dbe-6d99113ff061/2024-28-Kaufman-Specter-4-3.jpeg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) I love Judaism and practicing its core values, even if my traditional spiritual practice is lacking. I love the community and services. Being at GVSU, I am mostly removed from that community nowadays, mostly by my own choice. Photovoice made me realize how I miss that community, and, fortunately, it has offered me a space to exercise this identity despite removing myself from the past ways I practiced. I am proud to be a part of their team and explore my Judaism further in the future after reflecting on photovoice conversations. — Franklin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/7c61af1b-09cf-4754-8978-315e86896427/2024-10-Kaufman-Robinson-3-6.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) We can get in our own way of belonging. I judge myself harshly that I don’t fit into any one category and get in my own way of belonging to any one thing. I judge others (even though I am trying to break this habit) before I enable myself to open up to others. My fear of rejection holds me back from feeling belonging with friends and family. GVSU helps to provide spaces that I feel like I belong to and helps me discover people who care just as deeply about others and diverse viewpoints, providing me sanctuary. GVSU feels safe to me. GVSU provides experiences like photovoice where I am able to express the most vulnerable parts of myself to others without fear of rejection. This experience in particular allowed me to reflect deeply within myself to better understand how to thrive on campus and with those around me. — Rachel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/efced4c8-262a-4508-b233-4396e9fe31f4/2024-29-Kaufman-RRW-50.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) Participating in the Kaufman Interfaith Institute’s Photovoice project provided me with an invaluable experience. It offered a safe and welcoming space for discussing a sensitive topic like religion openly. Sharing my beliefs without fear of judgment allowed me to explore my spirituality and share a deeper aspect of myself with others. It made me realize that behind every face we encounter lies a unique story, full of personal practices and challenges. Learning about others’ experiences was truly enlightening. I deeply appreciate the opportunity to engage in such meaningful dialogue, and I will miss the sense of safety and community that this space provided. Moving forward, I believe it’s crucial to expand such initiatives to involve more people. As a Muslim, I often feel the weight of being a minority, facing judgment and criticism when discussing religion. Having a platform like this to address misconceptions and foster understanding was invaluable to me. I hope to see more opportunities like this in the future, where individuals from diverse backgrounds can come together, share their stories, and build bridges of empathy and understanding. — Anam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b8672566-a90a-4398-8775-ef938bf33dfb/2024-11-Kaufman-Robinson-3-5-3-2.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) Distortions and internal conflicts and challenges that disrupt my sense of belonging. A fractured identity struggling to connect the pieces to the larger puzzle. Rejection, judgment, exclusion not only from others but especially myself. A sense of sadness, disconnection. The process of working together in photovoice with welcoming people around me allowed me to dig deeper into self-reflection and my spirituality. I wish we had more spaces like this in our GVSU community. —Rachel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/cd1e347e-98d5-472b-a8a7-a24a0dc880b5/2024-12-Kaufman-Specter-4-1.jpeg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) This photo sums up, most artistically, my thoughts over the course of our Interfaith Photovoice project. Coming out of high school, I felt accomplished but as if I missed out on knowing my class as well as I could have. If future Franklin pointed out all the ways I went wrong to my past self right after graduation, that is probably the look I would be giving them as I thought over the circumstances. Despite the challenges I face, I’m in a good place and am always moving forward confidently. — Franklin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/bf20a1fc-3129-4762-8b39-3041e9ea77c4/2024-Kaufman-RRW-1.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/595fbbca-844f-4dc2-a40e-835eafe028f0/2024-13-Kaufman-Fatma-2-1.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) At GVSU, I struggle finding suitable spaces to practice my religious rituals. The random room captured in the photo symbolizes the challenges I encounter in accessing dedicated areas for prayer on campus. As a student navigating these constraints, I yearn for GVSU to allocate more dedicated spaces across its buildings to facilitate the seamless practice of diverse religious observances. This need for expanded accommodation underscores the importance of fostering inclusivity and support for religious expression within the university community. — Anam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/5d496fcc-c45a-4dba-87ae-b026ecf3393d/2024-14-Kaufman-Southwell-4-2.jpeg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) Many of you will recognize GVSU’s Laker store and the kiosk to pay for campus parking. For me, this photo represents why I’ve struggled to really feel like I belong to any sort of broader GVSU community and why campus has always felt slightly hostile to me. GVSU claims to want to be a welcoming, accepting community, but how welcoming and accepting can a community really be when it charges membership fees? I’ve had to struggle and teeter on the edge of financial ruin in order to attend GVSU, and I consider myself lucky. I love my peers, professors, and classes, but as long as it has its hands in my already empty pockets, it’ll always be tough for me to see GVSU as a community I belong to and not just a country club I can’t really afford. — Lucas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/92b44557-eb80-42d0-b55a-9b328b64953d/2024-Kaufman-RRW-7.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/249c581b-d330-4379-9b81-02b46ad9840f/2024-Kaufman-RRW-58.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/05cf1157-7ba1-4e47-be6a-9a5842da75e0/2024-15-Kaufman-Larkspur-2-4-3.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) Since I realized I was trans, I knew that being rejected by my family was inevitable. It's been about a year since my father formally decided to disown me and ex-communicate me almost completely. His version of devout Christianity just didn't have room for a queer kid. In addition to the challenges of being financially and emotionally self-sufficient, it's been tough coming to terms with holding on to religion in the face of my own family using it against me. In this specific text message, my father told me that my "decision to rebel against the authority of God is dividing [our] family." Holding onto my religious beliefs has meant taking time to reflect on how my family interpretation of our shared religion doesn't have to compromise who I am as a Christian or as a queer person. I don’t have to choose one or the other. I can just be me. — Lex https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/5d37b791-4c4e-46c2-bc77-d38b8aa0ebd2/2024-Kaufman-RRW-80.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/9856b079-97a1-470f-ba6a-18615c1d61cb/2024-Kaufman-RRW-64.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/229a5121-f62b-4f84-8e8f-c90b7111188e/2024-16-Kaufman-Schless-3-3b.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) When I am walking home from my sorority chapter meeting on Sunday night, I pass by all of the church services happening in this building. I hear the large groups of voices, singing and observing their religion. I always knew that the Jewish community was small, but growing up in a place with a large Jewish population, it was not something that I noticed until I came to campus. While being on campus I have missed that strong sense of Judaism and the comfort that comes with having people that share your faith around you. —Molly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/e4d86293-d951-4830-a5bb-977243d3d028/2024-17-Kaufman-Fatma-3-4.jpg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) This image captures the essence of a halal restaurant, where adherence to Islamic dietary laws ensures that the food served meets the requirements of Muslim consumers. The absence of halal meat options on campus remains a significant concern for me. The availability of halal restaurants off-campus underscores the demand for such options among students who adhere to Islamic dietary restrictions. This gap in dining offerings on campus highlights the need for greater inclusivity and accommodation of diverse dietary preferences and religious practices within university dining services. — Anam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/bda7456a-efd0-4378-b6db-fa2e308abe30/2024-18-Kaufman-Southwell-4-5.jpeg Seeing and Believing at Grand Valley State University (2024) This is the concrete walkway that connects the English buildings to the rest of campus. I make use of it almost every weekday as I shuffle between my English classes in Lake Huron Hall and my history classes in Mackinac. It’s invaluable to me, but it also kind of sucks. In the winter it becomes dangerously slippery and, with as crowded as it gets, I imagine many struggle to even make use of it; I know I did when I walked with a cane for months after breaking my leg. It’s good and I’m glad it exists, but it could be made much better and more accessible, which about sums up my thoughts on GVSU and its campus in general. —Lucas https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/portfolio-tcu daily 0.75 2026-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/839877e8-e9ea-430c-934f-9f52085d4de1/2025+TCU+Exhibit+1+-+Sarah+-+You+Belong.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University Sometimes to be accepted into a group, you have to think the right thoughts, wear the right clothes, know the right people. You have to morph into the right puzzle shape that the group is missing. To belong is to be accepted into the beautiful mosaic of originality and authenticity that is unique to each group of people. To belong is to be embraced for who you already are. — Sarah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/65eb3be5-4c11-42ce-be3a-776963539aa0/2025-0125-TCU-15.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/bd59a8f8-c626-4583-8566-163e55c9a67c/2025+TCU+Exhibit+2+-+Katie+-+Third+Space.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University The Commons is an incredible third space on campus. With circles of purple and grey adirondack chairs, it's a great place for people of all backgrounds and perspectives to come together. I hope that TCU continues to develop more third spaces-places neither at home nor places of work-to allow people to slow down and communicate across faith traditions and practices. — Katie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b1c25563-47a3-4e8f-86a0-2f513c137b9d/2025+TCU+Exhibit+3+-+Noah+-+Fountain.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University The fountain at the Neeley School of Business represents, to some people, a beautiful education journey that springboarded them into a career. For me, it represents times where I spent questioning whether our core values were the same as everyone else's on campus. It is also representative of a space where I felt like I had to put my guard up to get through the day. It represents a sense of not belonging. But Neeley is a springboard for me in other ways because it helped launch my drive to create spaces where all were welcomed and loved. — Noah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/6e9936ba-6163-4651-8737-90b1542adea4/RELIGIOUS+%26+SPIRITUAL+PRACTICES-4.png You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University If God is real, there is no way that God fits into any binary of what a man is. In my mind, if God is anything that humans can identify and label, God would be a queer figure. To me, to be queer is to be all loving and accepting. When I came to a Christian university, I did not think this concept would be celebrated, but I also didn't think that my queer identity would be targeted. If God is real, and I am made in the image of God, why do people hate and dismiss those who do not follow the earthly tradition of heterosexual relationships? It feels awfully anti-Christ to me. — Sarah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/a4e8a93e-e9d1-4ba2-98c0-42cfe933b951/2025-0125-TCU-26.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/40875b3f-6a55-4547-877f-cfa01eed383a/2025+TCU+Exhibit+5+-+Noah+-+Know+your+neighbor.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University This is a table and banner we set up to promote our Know Your Neighbor Night (KYNN). KYNN is a night where students of different faith backgrounds gather at tables to share a meal and be led through questions to foster authentic and vulnerable conversations about our faiths. Throughout this experience, we learn more about other peoples traditions and how we can better love and be in community with them. I hope to create more spaces like this on TU's campus so we, as students, can all better support one another as we journey alongside each other and grow in our own faiths. — Noah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/59275e09-f236-475f-b636-07f7b9a20a81/4O8A4093-2.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/675f3366-7083-4124-aaa8-bde2fd71421c/2025+TCU+Exhibit+6+-+Jonah+-+Paintings.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University A collection of paintings depicting biblical passages from an Orthodox Christian Campus Ministry meeting. Beside the officers, everyone was from different faiths, and we spent this time painting, chatting and eating popcorn. I hope for more spaces like this at TCU. — Jonah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/8e7d789c-058e-4000-8e94-763579856f9c/2025+TCU+Exhibit+7+-+Sophia+-+Stand+Together.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University These are some scattered music stands in the music building at TCU. A music stand holds a musician's music when playing or using their instrument. Although all music stands function similarly, they all carry different types of music for various instruments and styles throughout their journey. To compare a music stand to humans, we all have similar functions and our bodies work similarly, but we have different brains, ideas, and faiths that individualize us. The stand is our body; the music is how our brain is wired and what we believe and value in different things. We all stand together in one room with the power of many minds. — Sophia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/48876b81-87ea-4acd-b6b7-9b635c0a342d/Screenshot+2026-08-10+at+2.23.52%E2%80%AFPM.png You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University TCU football (and athletics in general) has been a bridge for many students on campus. We set aside our differences of who we are and what we believe to do things like cheer on our undefeated football team, sit with each other after a devastating loss, or even be in community with one another as we mourn the loss of a student at the game. This feeling of togetherness embodies what it means to be a Horned Frog. How do we create more spaces and feelings like this on campus? — Noah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/fd99eb01-4204-453d-8bc8-6a14359bf5f6/2025-0125-TCU-12.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/bdf30115-5fc6-4789-9841-308ee7c3495f/2025+TCU+Exhibit+8+-+Sarah+-+Common+Ground.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University As we sat together at dinner, my aunt and I shared space for our authentic vulnerability. We shared common ground of not thinking that any religion has it right. She shared wisdom of the power of listening and experience, one that I desperately needed a reminder of. I felt at peace listening to her and story-swapping. Our experiences in this country are vastly different from each other, and yet we shared common ground of being curious and open minded about what faith and truth means to us. — Sarah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/af5a0e67-f9a3-4b14-91de-2ee05287ab84/2025+TCU+Exhibit+9+-+Katie+-+Brunch.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University For as long as I can remember, every Sunday after attending 8:00 am mass, my grandmother makes brunch for my family. This image represents how food in general is a daily reminder of my Catholic faith-before eating a meal, I pay a prayer of thanksgiving with the sign of the cross. Brunch also symbolizes the importance of celebrating my faith as part of a community, and community is so often cultivated with food. — Katie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/46cdf2e0-5aea-4a93-835c-3239971502d8/2025+TCU+Exhibit+10+-+Jonah+-+Play.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University I learn a lot from working with kids. The way they play, the authenticity is something I try to carry as a part of my daily life. — Jonah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/e097d520-65e1-470a-8f59-ede4c4d4e53a/2025+TCU+Exhibit+11+-+Sophia+-+Statue.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University This statue stands on the side of Rees-Jones Hall. Every Tuesday and Thursday, as I walk from my 8:00 am in the music building to get my daily dose of Peet's Coffee, this statue stands along my path. I never noticed it until I finally looked around and took this picture. This statue represents the student body at TCU and how we pass each other every day, but we never look up at the people around us and how individual and unique any person can be in who they are and their faiths. — Sophia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/e23a1951-4e35-41d9-8287-1f67796da3fa/2025+TCU+Exhibit+12+-+Habeeb+-+Windows.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University The first verse of the first chapter ("The Opener") of the Qur'an reads, "Praise be to the Lord of the worlds." The philosophical and theological implications of this verse are profound-all of creation inhabits a unique subjective world. Each of our worlds are designed by the sum of our unique life experiences, memories, and perspectives. The occurrence of each experience of each being has a probability of zero and thus is so special and important that God created the rest of the world so one may experience that. This core piece of my belief has shaped my worldview, each interaction has become an opportunity to travel across worlds and learn from ideas and perspectives that I could never even imagine. The more diverse the ideas, backgrounds, cultures and beliefs of those I meet, the greater the opportunity to expand my own perspectives and explore dimensions of existence previously unknown to me. In this picture, the different window panes symbolize individual perspectives, each coloring and shaping reality in its own way. Yet a combination and appreciation of them all, gives a greater view of the bigger picture. — Habeeb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/a8728782-4cf1-4c6c-a5f7-a1bbf0303ac7/2025-0125-TCU-2.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/09230a75-b523-4d6f-8193-d46f87fbb696/2025+TCU+Exhibit+14+-+Sarah+-+Rest.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University Rest is incredibly important to me in my daily life. The routine of lying down at the end of the day and waking up fresh and renewed is sacred. On a particularly warm January day, I opened my windows and enjoyed the fresh air and breeze that embraced my face and body. There, I rested. — Sarah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/a559e3b7-cfe2-419c-aa40-127d99e95618/2025+TCU+Exhibit+15+-+Jonah+-+Coptic.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University Being Coptic, there's a lot of misconceptions about my faith. "Are you really Christian?" followed by a questioning look or confusion about our traditions. I wish we could see the ways we were alike first and then learn to appreciate each other's differences too. — Jonah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/16d6f199-d29c-4744-a70c-3545ef3b6fab/2025+TCU+Exhibit+17+-+Katie+-+Joan+of+Arc.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University My confirmation saint is St. Joan of Arc, so my confirmation sponsor gave the necklace to me at my-you guessed it-confirmation when I was 14. It's a reminder of how I can emulate St. Joan by following Christ through the challenges that I face, and that I shouldn't fear what God has in store for me, regardless of what others may think. My family has also always supported me and helped me develop in my faith, so when I'm not with them, and especially when I'm not with them, and especially when l'm at college, I wear it as a reminder that all my family's taught me how to live out my faith. — Katie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/095edcb9-1d64-40a5-a132-999f2b010450/2025+TCU+Exhibit+16+-+Noah+-+Mirror.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University This photo initially just looks like a rearview mirror of my 2010 Toyota Prius as I wait for the light at the intersection of University and Cantey to turn green. But below the surface, it reminds me to stop focusing so much on what has happened in the past that I lose sight of the here and now. — Noah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/26cdd3e9-8eae-4c52-bc6b-09dac2c5cdbd/2025-0125-TCU-22.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/c21086f5-a657-4101-848f-b43afba23adf/2025+TCU+Exhibit+18+-+Sophia+-+Piano.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University This is a piano at the music building at TCU. I find my spirituality, religion, and connection to God through the messages and impacts music makes. — Sophia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/db607f28-7796-4b65-9c03-d12fcdda3378/2025+TCU+Exhibit+19+-+Habeeb+-+Rock+On.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University This is a picture of one of my cousins took on his disposable camera while I threw up the signs to rock on and closed my eyes because of the flash. Surprisingly, it captures a core practice of Islam that I practice daily: to have faith in God and enjoy the music (situation of life) in the moment for happiness, sadness, victory, and defeat. All are just the ever-changing seasons of life, and to enjoy or experience them fully is the control l have. — Habeeb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b5aa7fc6-ba5f-44a3-8142-cf135f764b72/2025+TCU+Exhibit+20+-+Sarah+-+Beasley+Hall.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University For my religion credit, I took a class titled, "Understanding Religion, Society, and Culture." As a first year, I could not have taken this class at a more opportune time. As someone who didn't know they were in need of some spiritual grounding, I journeyed to the first level of Beasley Hall where I learned that God is not one; where I learned that I find beauty and knowledge in every religion. I wish that TCU students were more willing to engage in interfaith dialogue. — Sarah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b56dcb8f-edf8-48b3-b03d-b8b86f013a8a/2025-0125-TCU-8.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1c99300d-1581-4e73-b492-d74dabcc6586/2025+TCU+Exhibit+21+-+Jonah+-+Sleeping.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University As a Coptic Christian, I spend the nights before Easter or Christmas in prayer with my community, up until 12:00 am, then we break our Lent fasting with a huge feast. My brother and I are both deacons, but we are also big sleepers. This photo was taken by a friend while my brother and I enjoyed a quick nap. — Jonah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1728587039587-JS1B2QUA502H0F4J19NL/IMG_20241008_113823.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/61c8d365-9d42-418a-b16f-3550e00876cc/2025+TCU+Exhibit+22+-+Noah+-+Scattered.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University This is a cart that fell over after a long journey of trying to get some children's books into a garage at the church I work at. It makes me think of times in my life that I have felt like that cart-that my journey was too bumpy and now everything is scattered. How can we better see when others carts have fallen over and be there for them to pick it back up? — Noah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ff9dbf83-89ff-47cf-bafb-e2a3bdb21ddd/2025+TCU+Exhibit+23+-+Habeeb+-+Lovers.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University Love is the truth. The prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be on him, says is one of his 40 Nawawi narratives (Forty Hadith of an-Nawawi), "None of you will believe unless you love for others what you love for yourself." And 30% of the Qu'ran teaches only ethics and moral values. When I came across this poem on the New York metro, it really stood out to me and has become one of my favourite ones. To love those different from ourselves, to know good and bad, are only two sides of the same coin, and forwarding the love we receive to all of humanity is one of my most cherished practices in daily life. — Habeeb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/8af2be43-898a-4129-8fb8-f5085cff9b8a/2025+TCU+Exhibit+24+-+Sarah+-+Peace+of+Christ.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University A message of peace and love for one's self and one's body. As an agnostic college student at a Christian college conference, I found myself looking for what I could take away. The sharing of this message of peace and love felt humanizing. I hope that despite your background, you know that I love you. — Sarah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/36c1e625-0478-4e2e-88a7-ed0a8920eb3e/2025+TCU+Exhibit+25+-+Jonah+-+Favorite+Place.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University This is one of my favorite spaces on campus. In summer it's bright and full of flowers; in spring there are butterflies everywhere, flitting around; and winter brings calm stillness. It is a perfect place for meditating on life, alone, or with friends. — Jonah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/977a1a1e-db24-4a6d-a859-0cc0eef99b37/2025+TCU+Exhibit+26+-+Katie+-+Love+your+Neighbor.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University These are students working on an art project at the English center where I volunteered when I studied abroad in Spain. Volunteering with them reflects how the Gospels say that the two greatest commandments are love of God and love of neighbor. Volunteering is one way I'm passionate about showing love to my neighbor, yes. But this photo also reflects how I value showing compassion, love and patience towards all people whom I encounter. — Katie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/be845452-9f7a-4df5-a39f-b44f5a816f89/2025+TCU+Exhibit+27+-+Ryan+-+Sunset.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University I can't help but stop and partake in the beauty of a sunset at TCU. With the chapel in the background, I find a sense of solitude amidst the challenges of each day. A sunrise and sunset represent much more than a picturesque scene - it reminds us that even through darkness, there is always light. — Ryan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/2b685e35-fe7f-4c39-8ffd-f608bff56adc/2025-0125-TCU-36.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/0d2d1f01-0e71-4170-9e00-853b71208d07/20250424_181507.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/32f7ed36-788d-4f61-9cab-814897e85e22/2025+TCU+Exhibit+28+-+Ryan+-+Nature.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University There is nothing that sparks my faith and belief like nature. The wind knocking down the gorgeous fall foliage in my home state of Georgia reminds me that faith is seen through individuals ready to move mountains for others. — Ryan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/076a9209-9c3b-4d37-b5c7-ae82b2542768/2025+TCU+Exhibit+29+-+Ryan+-+Christmas.jpg You Belong Here: Building a Culture of Belonging at Texas Christian University The Christmas tree lighting at TCU is a special night. As a practicing Christian, the lighting symbolizes a season I am closely in touch with. The TCU community comes together to bask in joy, hot chocolate, and music in a manner which is not commonly seen throughout our university. 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It’s little similarities and gestures like this that can build bridges between different faith communities. — Ben (USA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b6844060-a041-4c96-ab07-39000dcc9323/2023-1100-2+Anne.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 Before facing God and each other, we need to look at our own reflection in the world around us. — Ina (Finland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/dfb7893e-1c5f-4b9c-bf56-741592e63d7a/2023-1109-AAC-50.jpg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1edf882c-27f0-46a2-afe0-aaadc9e0550a/2023-1100-3+Ina.jpg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 People need different amounts of time to get used to the water. Some jump right in, some need to slowly wade in, and some might not have courage at first to get in. The same thing happens when we are changing, deciding, and reconciling—everybody needs time to get used to the water temperature. — Ina (Finland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/4825859a-b37d-4dbd-b099-8cf7b6f9e974/2023-1100-4+Mellie.JPG Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 Interreligious knowhow is like learning a new language: you need someone to translate, explain, and share the narratives to help us see through their eyes. — Melli (Germany) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/022b0481-25a4-4601-b645-baa32be0c5ac/2023-1100-5+Zahabia.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 The falaj of Al Hamra nourishes the plots of land tended to by the locals as they have for centuries. The arid ground is transformed by the clear, pure water that rushes through the canals. The falaj is connected, releasing just what is needed for each plot as the stream moves on to the next plot of land. Here Omani, Finish, and American friends find connection as they rest and enjoy the brisk water and build authentic connections. — Zahabia (USA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/28c33459-6697-493d-942d-64852d707dfb/2023-1100-6+Grace.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 This image represents the beauty in humanity and the representation of God in nature. The experience of witnessing these boys playing the the pool helped reinforce the idea that there are so many more similarities between us than we realize. — Grace (USA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/fe97411f-afeb-434c-be89-4b113daf433e/2023-1109-AAC-42.jpg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/655382be-5d62-43b3-92ca-6075ac213a6c/2023-1100-7+Nusaiba.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 From our visit to the church complex in Ruwi, there was a wooden cross hung up on the walls made by an Omani. Understanding that he might be a Muslim who crafted a cross for another religion’s place of worship, this act of engagement is built on a solid cooperative framework. — Nusaiba (Oman) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b38ee765-800b-46b0-86d4-af6b3ba5fbb6/2023-1109-AAC-60.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/051e18bd-8870-4f49-ae14-672a5a13db75/2023-1100-8+Amira.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 Differences are not obstacles if we don’t want them to be. They can be a new window for us to see things from a different angle for humanity to grow and prosper. — Amira (Oman) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/298e7644-e728-4d53-bc4f-f948609ae261/2023-1100-9+Mellie.jpg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 For me the incense burner (kanoon) is a metaphor of the peaceful aroma of the Omani way of life. Not only do we smell the incense burning everywhere, the kanoon is a symbol of Omani culture. — Melli (Germany) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/74085b0b-7fbb-49fe-b0c2-8c64fdb7c7ba/2023-1100-10+Anne.jpg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 Cooperation is easier when we can focus on shared goals and desired outcomes, even when we have differences—sometimes even disagreements. — Anne (Finland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b903e9d2-cc44-4e56-8c95-f68e8abcd4af/2023-1100-11+Zahabia.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 These compasses represent the different directions that people come to Oman. How have the people come to find belonging and community here? More importantly, where will Omani society go? With all the diversity how do the people of Oman work together to promote acceptance and belonging? Can we learn and appreciate enough about each other to have “holy envy” for another’s traditions? — Zahabia (USA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/e966eff2-cff2-4a6a-a2ee-4c385e12d30c/2023-1109-AAC-40.jpg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/aa4ba9a7-4a5f-4e52-8da5-a35c580b90b4/2023-1100-12+Tamer.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 As a Palestinian, seeing the Omani people’s support for my home country made me feel very welcomed and comfortable during tough times. — Tamer (Palestine) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/17bb9ad9-9fae-4bd9-8a98-2208d5547e38/2023-1100-13+Hiba.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 I am proud of the solidarity that has been shown to me as a Palestinian in Oman. It has been a chance to speak out loud and to share about Palestine. — Hiba (Palestine) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/d8f0ae73-c68d-462b-90f4-7ed9fe4370b2/2023-1100-14+Anne.jpg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 Listening is a crucial skill when it comes to interfaith work and building a just and inclusive society and world. It is only by listening to the other that we can truly learn and grow. — Anne (Finland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f6df7a58-fb72-4d65-a962-2c4b04c55e9b/2023-1100-15+Hiba.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 Encouragement, learning, and peaceful moments in a situation that you can’t find peace. — Hiba (Palestine) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/767ea57d-c1cf-428a-8e0d-e411f3e93c9b/2023-1100-16+Mellie.jpg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 In a conversation with new Omani friends, the shared the wisdom they learned from their grandfather: face every situation with a smile. — Melli (Germany) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/68a2844c-cd1d-443a-8e86-3ac58e8772cb/2023-1100-17+Tamer.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 The diversity of our interfaith group is visible in a selfie taken in the midst of the beauty of the Grand Mosque. Just as the grand mosque embodies the diversity of the muslim world, we represent interfaith pluralism in action. — Tamer (Palestine) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ac42ee4a-f6ac-4706-9dca-f068632faa34/2023-1100-18+Grace.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 Here is a photo that represents cooperation for me. I think the symbolism of the doorway represents being welcomed into the space and you can also see an Omani man giving a tour to people in the background which I believe is a powerful image of how people desire to understand a context that may not be their own and in turn this leads to better cooperation. — Grace (USA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/7e3dcc19-36f1-483a-b6e9-9ac997db49df/2023-1100-19+Grace.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 For me, this photograph represents taking steps toward progress and understanding in Oman. We all took this hike together, pushed through the hard parts, and enjoyed the cool falaj at the end. This can represent the beauty of interfaith work, which can be challenging along the journey, but the beauty you can find through it is powerful and beneficial. — Grace (USA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b8d2d875-9037-4100-a6d0-9f880c729ca0/2023-1109-AAC-62.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/93ffc6e3-dc98-4b86-8700-70b2bd2ba66c/2023-1100-20+Ina.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 A sing on the wall reminds me of how we need to be mindful of each other’s walls when working across differences. It is what might be hard for the other person, and what in me stands between me and understanding someone else. I’m reminded to mind the wall (in different ways). — Ina (Finland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/dee29f83-8b10-43c0-86a3-a5b8ee5df315/2023-1109-AAC-37.jpg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/496bbaa9-1bcc-4cc0-843f-4e1c325a0391/2023-1100-21+Ben.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 Just like my friend Mohammed had to confront his fear of dogs, sometimes interfaith encounters place us in situations that can be uncomfortable. Stepping into that discomfort leads us to gentle moments. — Ben (USA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/34fe9b8c-9bc2-4fb8-af98-6883f20e3c90/2023-1100-22A+Zahabia.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 Often when I’m walking I look down because I don’t want to step on something I shouldn’t and I want to see where I’m going. However, when we keep our gaze down we can miss what’s happening around us. This medallion in the Mutrah souq, represents years of multicultural exchange between the Omani culture and a diversity of many people coming together to trade and leave together. Trade brought many traditions, including Christianity, to this region. The stained glass above the baptismal pool of the Ruwi church represents the hope of Christians to live with acceptance in Omani society. — Zahabia (USA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/8f13907e-7fbf-4af5-b92b-7e73b7b192d6/2023-1100-22B+Zahabia.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 Often when I’m walking I look down because I don’t want to step on something I shouldn’t and I want to see where I’m going. However, when we keep our gaze down we can miss what’s happening around us. This medallion in the Mutrah souq, represents years of multicultural exchange between the Omani culture and a diversity of many people coming together to trade and leave together. Trade brought many traditions, including Christianity, to this region. The stained glass above the baptismal pool of the Ruwi church represents the hope of Christians to live with acceptance in Omani society. — Zahabia (USA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/9d72c992-a47f-43d0-9274-830dcc2d9fff/2023-1100-23+Grace.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 Connection across culture and making family out of friends. This image represents the beauty that can be found across differences because of how this man, who was from Bangladesh, has raised Yusuf and they have become like family throughout the years. — Grace (USA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/9fbb030d-0bfe-4d1b-a355-1c1f591a4f97/2023-1100-24+Grace.jpeg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 Stark differences between these spices brings vibrance and increased beauty between them. It represents finding the balance in diversity. — Grace (USA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/79825aec-e292-4e61-a89b-6097f01dca61/2023-1100-25+Anne.jpg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 Differences don’t mean we cannot work together or coexist harmoniously. Our diversities can form a beautiful mosaic—in our communities, in society, and in the world. — Anne (Finland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/445e48eb-e45f-455f-9226-b5fd44018e93/2023-1109-AAC-2.jpg Cooperation through the Lenses of Muslims and Christians: Oman 2023 https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/portfolio-hope-american-teens daily 0.75 2026-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/38672a18-ec62-4c33-a025-f9ae774081b3/2024-Braver+Lens+Hope+2+-+Avery+-+2.jpg Hope Through the Lens of American Teens According to the dictionary hope is “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.” This photo feels very hopeful to me because the flower growing out of the rocks, coming up from nothing feels like hope itself. — Avery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/0c4c0cbb-9461-47c0-9c85-fe0da82356dc/2024-Braver+Lens+Hope+2+-+Avery+-+4.jpg Hope Through the Lens of American Teens As a very short person I always find it fun how in the evenings if I face the right way it makes my shadow at least a few feet taller. For some reason this has always given me loads of hope even though I know I will always be short. — Avery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/efa13ebe-b122-4733-b715-551741473939/2024-0600+Braver+Lens+Exhibit+Photos+RWilliams+-+17.jpg Hope Through the Lens of American Teens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/00d6f45b-55c8-46e0-88fd-0f9015ad8261/2024-Braver+Lens+Hope+2+-+Lucia+-+1.jpeg Hope Through the Lens of American Teens You might think I’m hoping for a package. But I took this photo for another reason. This picture resembles hope because this delivery truck is 100% electric which is hopeful to me because as our planet is heating up you can still see efforts to try to balance and decrease the amount to c02 being released into the atmosphere by encouraging 100% electric vehicles and brainstorming ideas to try to cool our planet in the upcoming years. — Lucia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/746e1756-5633-4899-9cac-4c0420151ad2/2024-Braver+Lens+Hope+2+-+Emmalee+-+7.jpeg Hope Through the Lens of American Teens This is very meaningful to me because love is so much more than people know. Even in this verse, it talks about hope, and it says how much love is worth and that people should become loving like how God is. “Love never fails. “That is amazing and it means so much, God will never fail. You, neither will love, but people will. So you can’t put your trust in people, it also talks about trust. 1 Corinthians says, "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no records of wrongs. Love does not delight and evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, trusts, hopes, perseveres. Love never fails." — Emmalee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/4fd2b76b-676b-4911-a4db-689001e8f872/2024-Braver+Lens+Hope+2+-+Fio+-+1.jpg Hope Through the Lens of American Teens Working at Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFFA) represents hope because there are volunteers who are helping people shop for their food. These people don’t have enough money, so they have to choose to either spend their money on housing or food for their families. EFAA is a great organization because they have a food pantry for low-income families. They also have housing for people who have lost their jobs and are looking for a new home. This gives me hope because EFAA is made up of volunteers who are helping out their community. — Fiorella https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1cb458af-c38d-408d-ac15-9851d399de52/2024-Braver+Lens+Hope-Emmalee-1.jpg Hope Through the Lens of American Teens This photo is a tree and it only blooms once a year for a week or two. This gives me hope that we can plant a seed and everyone’s heart so they can see God. The way the flowers in the front are clear and the flowers in the back are blurry, but still beautiful. God should be clear in your life, and you should see the truth more clearly than the lies. If you see the lies more and want to do the wrong thing more than the right, pray, love, and speak the truth. God will love you always, forever, no matter what you do, but don’t take advantage of that. — Emmalee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ea916ce5-54a2-4bc5-8a12-610dff6a2929/2024-Braver+Lens+Hope+2+-+Emmalee+-+4.jpeg Hope Through the Lens of American Teens This photo means that I can put my hope in my country, and I know that people won’t invade, and I know people are protecting me. For example, God, he always protects us and won’t ever let anything hurt us, but if something does happen, it was for a reason. Everything is for a reason. People put their hope in the military, but some don’t put their hope in God. God is the reason for everything good, he won’t let people go away for no reason. Like my grandparents, I know he has a plan for me and my mom after they go away and I can put my hope in Him. — Emmalee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/3b7314e6-b8a4-4f8c-bef5-3ac72e8ad577/2024-Braver+Lens+Hope-Lucia-4.jpeg Hope Through the Lens of American Teens My dog’s exuberance in this photo feels like hope because he is full of energy and happiness. — Lucia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/fb76cc93-aa4f-495e-928a-2c1e597e32da/2024-Braver+Lens+Hope-Emmalee-2.jpg Hope Through the Lens of American Teens Like the other photos, my mom and I love taking photos of the sky, and it is like our thing together. This puts hope in my life because I know I can have something to look forward to besides all the other things. I have beauty in my life and it is so crazy how people don’t know what beauty is out there. I even love the way the trees cover it a little and even dead trees are beautiful in the winter. The way the snow is on there and how white and gorgeous it is. God is amazing in these ways and that is something I can always put my trust, my hope, my love into, him, always. I hope that people who don’t know God will come to him and realize he has done so much for us. — Emmalee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/cdb0f02c-6196-40f5-8391-3e68a50fdc4b/2024-Braver+Lens+Hope-Fio-2.jpg Hope Through the Lens of American Teens Weather can keep people inside, which is good for the environment. When people stay inside all day, there will be less pollution and trash. This brings me hope because it means the environment is safer from people. — Fiorella https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f0ce420d-e727-4313-9880-40d85e74f0ae/2024-Braver+Lens+Hope+2+-+Lucia+-+8.jpeg Hope Through the Lens of American Teens The way that the light shines on the seeds of the dandelion resembles hope because it is beautiful and it makes me feel still. — Lucia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/0a49ac13-a437-495d-a978-54065a7adf6f/2024-Braver+Lens+Hope-Mia-1.jpg Hope Through the Lens of American Teens Water is an incredible element in so many ways. The weightlessness one feels while swimming, coupled with the burning in your lungs and muscles has power to be nearly transcendent. The rhythmic patterns of breathing often leaves one feeling relaxed and happy hours after a swim. The positive effects this sport has had on my mental health, in both the short and long term gives me hope. I am also hopeful that more people will discover how beneficial this kind of physical movement can be to their health, and overall quality of life. — Mia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/5b96e135-42d5-453b-b89d-beccfa89d8bc/2024-Braver+Lens+Hope-Mia-2.jpg Hope Through the Lens of American Teens Anyone can see the raw power of this young woman as she is about to raise her chin over the pull up bar. Only people who have met her would know what a compassionate friend and teammate she is. Her encouragement and smiles lift up our swim team, as well as the way she calls us all ‘kitten’ affectionately. Her work ethic and strength are an inspiration to those around her. People like her make me hopeful for the future of our country and world. — Mia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/d560b837-2c38-4735-afe7-31ade6e54031/2024-0600+Braver+Lens+Exhibit+Photos+RWilliams+-+5.jpg Hope Through the Lens of American Teens https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/portfolio-seeing-the-sacred daily 0.75 2026-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f5238f00-eb1e-4af6-a9cf-5e07c0a94cc1/Gucwa-Photo-52.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life The world is full of Beautiful, amazing things You are one of them — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/0f9f603f-e362-4a59-9fbd-f540883d0ec2/Mehta-Photo-7.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life The grocery store where I visited and I saw a few people buying the tulsi plant. One lady was buying a tulsi plant that is again the everyday thing you pray and worship. This Indian basil plant is often known as a tulsi plant. I liked the background behind it if you could see there are a lot of small temples on the shelves, again with the Diwali decorations for sale and few scriptures. — Sumeet Mehta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/68dfa3f6-80a5-4d46-a41c-0aa6de588be2/Gucwa-Photo-36.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is the kosher meat section and it's just kind of, I like the old guy and the young guy working together to stack the shelves. Orthodox Jewish men often wear yarmulkes, a brimless skull cap to show respect and humility to God and as a reminder that there is a higher power. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/bd0df814-127f-4f4c-beee-4ef289f78083/Carrasco-Photo-1.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I go grocery shopping at least twice a week. I buy for two, three days. And I'm just always grocery shopping quite a lot. So there's a theme of grocery shopping in my images. And for me, I always am at the grocery. I do tend to wander off even if I don't need anything, I'm that person. Just really just walk around the whole store. And so it's something that I see a lot. And in the neighborhood where I do my practicum, it's a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, and so there is quite a bit of religious food, especially relating to Judaism. And so I included that since it's also as soon as you walk in, it's very, obviously it's the kosher section. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/fdfd07a1-18ff-4a9e-96e8-4c8c3a27e1f1/Carrasco-Photo-3.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life There's a lot of candles in the grocery store, especially in Hispanic grocery stores. And it's just a way people practice prayer, not necessarily for the smell, I believe. And so there's a lot of materiality in Hispanic culture, specifically Catholicism, which is not something I am completely versed in. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/976e2f52-9566-4fe5-b844-95af311ea235/Carrasco-Photo-7.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life It just says, love your neighbor. It says a lot more. . . . And basically just love your neighbor despite language, culture, whatever. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/8c97278f-0472-45b2-8294-ca2fbcef8179/Mehta-Photo-13.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This red flag again is the other prominent symbol of Hindu temple and represents the lord Hanuman. This photo was taken from the rathyatra, known as the chariot ride of the lord Jagan Nath celebrated entirely in India and USA by people of South Indians, Bengalis, Orissa people and others. Behind the red flag we can see there is a golden dome of the temple. These red flags are attached to the chariot which is decorated with lots of flowers and fruits to place the Lord Jagan Nath and give him seven rounds of the temple where all the people will be walking by themselves singing bhajans and dancing like a celebration in the month of July. — Sumeet Mehta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1def1545-2e09-41a6-a8b4-e54966d32ac6/Carrasco-Photo-19.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life The youth were going into a stupa, and it was just recently finished two months ago, we were one of the first people to actually go as a group to the stupa and it's just them right before they're coming into this and they're taking off their shoes as a sign of entering a sacred space. And I just got a picture in action of them about to step into this sacred space. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f821415f-b160-4d31-b0df-f564d38ef8b6/Guaron-Photo-1+Large.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is outside St Anthony’s Shrine in Boston. I work with the Franciscan Friars on their homeless outreach and other critical services to the community. This image represents the piety, humility and services that the community strives to embody. — Julianne Gauron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/0e37bd64-b90e-4f3b-9556-20e916c664fb/Schaus-Photo-21.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I really like the picture of Tessa looking back, she's looking at her husband and I don't know why this picture just does really speak to me. I'm not quite sure if I like it in black and white. I was playing around with it in color and the lighting in their house was just so dark that it was really hard for me with the lighting. But I do like the picture. — Joanna Schaus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/8b313bf5-5200-4972-a2df-b071ba44762b/Guaron-Photo-14.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I am trying to visualize what it is to hold onto faith when it's darkest, this can be challenging. I've definitely been there. As I was making this image, I realized, sometimes this candle of faith, it flickers. — Julianne Gauron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/6f42ac9b-6be3-4f4b-9db9-496a460036a7/Carrasco-Photo-2.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Moving on, I took a picture of a butterfly. I do like nature, and I was not in nature a lot these couple weeks. It's just a butterfly. And to me, this picture really means just really taking time is slow down. Look at the moment too, in spirituality, in Mexican culture, butterflies are spiritual, especially when it comes to around day of the dead. This is not a monarch butterfly, but it's a butterfly. So it's related. And to me, it also reminds me of this song that my mother used to from her vacation church school about butterflies and being fragile and sacred. So it was just very, really connected to my spirituality, but also just to my heritage, both my families, but I guess from a culture as well. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/933ea1f8-d25f-4d1d-83d3-4447692f6a9e/Guaron-Photo-3.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is a peony from my garden. I find my faith most evident in nature. I bought a house a month before Covid, and spent a lot of covid unearthing the garden that had been there for many renters. There are a lot of flowers and amazing plants, but they were buried under weeds or, as with this peony, under a stone wall. To me, nature, agriculture, and the seasons are very spiritual. There is magic, wonder, gratitude and lessons to be learned. You can learn so much and experience so much in nature. Nature is sacred, I cannot imagine feeling any other way. — Julianne Gauron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f795d6f6-157a-4b4b-a18c-128e850c3bc8/Guaron-Photo-15.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I wanted to use elements from nature that show the wonder that nature creates, even in her smallest elements, not just the grand vistas. This is a weed, it's called Queen Ann’s Lace. But it's actually beautiful with a sort of mathematical shape. It's like this beautiful numerical shape spiraling out, but it's considered a weed. The image strives to show that nature manifests these extraordinary creations, everywhere. And this sense of wonder, awe, and gratitude is a big part of spirituality. Even for a “weed.” — Julianne Gauron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/cc5e9508-79b2-401c-9a98-347f9ccff32f/Gucwa-Photo-41.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is a Jewish wine (Mogen David is popular Kosher wine) bottle feeding the plants, so that's kind of cool. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/29079ac4-225c-4ace-8124-3eaff90a42bc/Guaron-Photo-10.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life The God rays over the marshes convey the feeling of wonder that I feel in nature, but also specifically at the golden hour. You feel like that light, that light feels like an expression of sacred to me. That we are gifted this. Especially in New England where the light ebbs and flows throughout the year. I was also trying to find ways to express what spirituality feels like to me more abstractly. Nature, light, emotions, freedom, the sacred and a sense of deep gratitude. — Julianne Gauron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/490a171e-396f-4391-9bcb-18798c0809e1/Gucwa-Photo-57.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Festival of lights Breast cancer And Jesus’s birth Yep, that about sums it up — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ec73a5ef-c37d-4aa9-82d3-47ec0e7abbd9/Carrasco-Photo-12.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This one is one of the first worship services that was planned by the interns here. They really took the passage of Exodus and Moses and taking off the sandal and just entering into a sacred space. And their reason behind the pile of shoes was you're entering a very sacred space and people just got to take off their shoes as they got into the chapel. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/dac01367-6ab3-4cf4-b942-8319e9255d5c/Carrasco-Photo-14.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is the same coworker, and this was actually just her on her break and I realized she was standing almost directly behind the arch. I'm like, that's a perfect candid picture: sometimes you don't realize the sacred is all around you, because she was on her phone during her break. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b2a654d8-6cc1-4273-97c8-bde69b40eefa/Mehta-Photo-10.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is what an Indian temple looks like. Usually a dome, a pyramid shaped tower. The top of the tower is usually built with real gold. This couple is standing beside the temple and praying from outside by joining their hands and thanking the god. Next to the couple there is a beautiful rangoli decor that is again an Indian ritual where they decorate the entrance to welcome the statue of any deities on special occasions and also on festivals. Sometimes life is too busy to visit the temple from inside every time, and then bowing their heads and thanking the god from outside helps them. To connect to the god visiting temples everyday is not possible for many and then it’s the connection from within that is what is followed by many people in everyday life. Instead they keep a weekend to visit the temple from inside and have prasad. — Sumeet Mehta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1c3c4042-d259-49db-a4b2-b9fc53c9f6a0/Zaid-Photo-1.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is my dear friend. She’s someone who has taught me so much over the few months that I have known her. This photo aims captures her selflessness and her sense of wonder over the smallest little things. I appreciate how much she respects different religions and cultures. And she is so involved in activism and making the world a better place. As someone who could cut herself off from the world as she has faced so many challenges of her own, it is so striking that she never backs down from adversity. Being around her gives me greater appreciation for my religion and my life. — Fatima Zaid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/46c791c2-ad13-4f2c-9563-84334f7a844a/Carrasco-Photo-20.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is one of my coworkers that I worked with for three weeks and we're just living together, working together, intentional community stuff and working with the youth as well. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ea5ab16e-9495-4180-acee-73e4df26f8ac/Mehta-Photo-12.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This image was taken during the celebration of the rath yatra. Rath yatra is the chariot ride of their god when they take five or seven rounds or circles of the temple. An exciting part is that all the people help the temple and take active participation voluntarily. I think doing a Darshan is like a proud moment for an individual. Darshan in Indian religion means a glimpse or a view. Darshanam is the auspicious sight of a deity or a holy person. Here this person in blue kurta is so happy to hold the auspicious thali of the celebration to take inside to the temple after the darshanam.We can also see behind him other people bowing down during the darshanam of their God, seeking blessings by joining their hands and praying and offering flowers. — Sumeet Mehta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/72b2c021-666a-480b-865b-e92aca5e6fd2/Zaid-Photo-16.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is an image of my friend. She’s the coolest. I think Muslims of today showcase that modesty is not black and white. People have different comfortability, there's a spectrum of how people practice Hijab, how they choose to dress. And I think that it's really cool that we exist in our own skin and practice the faith externally, in various ways. The fact that we all try to do it and make the intentions, I think it’s beautiful. — Fatima Zaid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/a016e462-059d-46d3-9e33-910f89bae0e6/Schaus-Photo-18.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I took these pictures on Sunday of friends in our church small group. They are Christian and Cameron who's in the green shirt. He has this cross tattoo that I really wanted to photograph and I thought these turned out really good. — Joanna Schaus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/0039a345-87c0-4938-adf8-c508a4c92106/Carrasco-Photo-11.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life One of my coworkers that does a lot of journaling and journaling is part of her spirituality and everyday life, and that's how she practices her spirituality. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/7b742e9a-1f74-41c4-ada8-4b7b792795bc/Carrasco-Photo-24.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life My childhood dictionary has been part of my life. My father used to get me dictionaries every year because I'm not an English speaker, and so we want to make sure I was, and so to me it kind of reminded me of my own and also with academics, balancing questioning and also trying to find reliable resources. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/e297c4f9-9849-4a78-85a6-b384edd486c1/Zaid-Photo-10.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life The quiet side of life, just taking it slow. A couple of friends and I went to the beach in small town Michigan, and I will say, we were a minority at this beach. We had our desi music playing and it was good fun. — Fatima Zaid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/662ccd55-854e-469b-9533-f0348ea1e962/Mehta-Photo-14.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life The lady here is dressed up in one of her traditional costumes and was performing Odissi dance, which is a type of Indian classical dance. She is wearing a bomkai saree. They're all waiting there for their turn to perform back to back showing different folk Indian dances. Also on the right side there is a priest standing enjoying different performances. So after prayers, bhajans and rituals were performed in the temple they (the priest and devotees) were all enjoying themselves in a temple auditorium. As well all the kids and the families were enjoying their children's performances and learning more cultures and sharing the joy at the same time. — Sumeet Mehta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1f854731-10c0-4e38-ab0b-fc48b43c4455/Gucwa-Photo-34.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life He doesn’t have much, yet He’s committed to sharing whatever he’s got — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/219bddf5-b790-4561-af9e-de52b7ac0b6e/Gucwa-Photo-33.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Sun dappled garden, betwixt wild flowers and bird song, I find peace — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/28be7cef-3c31-436a-97e3-a606a79d9039/Carrasco-Photo-18.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life We took our youth to the Georgia Buddhist Vihara earlier this week and Vihara is basically in the early type of monastery consisting of open court. And my youth were just learning about Buddhism being exposed. This photo shows some statues of a few monks. They don't really have any identities or specific monks, but the guy that was guiding us, he really emphasizes the mention of just being one with nature and just kind of having this contemplative state of being just in nature. And I really like the color contrast and that's why I took it. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/70d96554-a09b-4e6d-a27c-736d1190098d/Guaron-Photo-2+Large.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life The Shrine is open to all people, from the community, from mayors all the way to the homeless. It's a very holy space. This woman was having a devotional moment and it just felt really spiritual. I really liked that I couldn't see her face because it could be me, it could be you, it could be your brother, it could be any of us. And this matched the sculpture of Jesus, covering his face as he weeps, so we cannot see either of them. It is this intimate moment that they are having. — Julianne Gauron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/77b13c1f-3415-415a-b1a9-7ad456a6a9f6/Mehta-Photo-1.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life We can see the priest standing there. It is in the Sai Temple that is from Hinduism one of the Gods. This is not my regular temple where I visit. So it was very interesting because when I talked to the priest about why he's a priest, his connection to God and his services. He said he is spending his life, his duties, everything in the temple also he’s been migrated from a different land. He explained that he acts as a messenger to God. He further said,” I'm a middleman as I take all the problems from the people like all the secrets and I pass it to God, so that God can help that common man.” The priest was very confident and happy in what he was doing and we can see that from his smile. — Sumeet Mehta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/211562d7-0384-426f-ba7e-875c0fb6ab66/Gucwa-Photo-7.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Inclusion means you’re welcomed at the table and there’s food you can eat My prayer for you is that you feel welcomed, valued, respected, loved (Synagogue: Jewish house of Worship) — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/6aa5f9d2-39f9-40ae-bb88-33ba4505647c/Guaron-Photo-5.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This image is from my little loft in County Kerry Ireland at twilight looking out over the Atlantic. So much about light, and the dark, I think represents that sense of spirituality. — Julianne Gauron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/fc17ef9c-564e-4d8c-9092-07dc17a185f5/Guaron-Photo-7.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I grew up in a fishing town in New England, and every few years the region loses fishermen. It’s a really hard life. It's a little bit stormy, and I tried to edit to that. I wanted to explore the idea of lighthouses as a guiding point, a sort of spirituality. The notion of taking a risk, but having faith. I was trying to imagine the lighthouse as guidance within faith. But a lighthouse is also a warning. — Julianne Gauron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/94f04705-6ac5-46f2-be2d-49bb7a209e32/Guaron-Photo-8-B%26W+Large.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life There was a poem growing up, about a man who had passed away. He looked back on his life, and he could see the events of his life, along the beach. And there were his footsteps and the footsteps of God beside him. But at the most difficult points of his life, it was just his footsteps. And he asked God, why did you abandon me? And God said, oh, those aren't your footsteps. Those are mine. I was carrying you. I still remember that because it was really beautiful. I wanted to depict that here. — Julianne Gauron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/6e398fb6-24a6-4e7e-88af-8c7c22085d51/Guaron-Photo-9.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life We have phenomenal storm clouds here that'll come in. I love to look up at clouds that will stack up with the sunset light shining on them. It always felt otherworldly. Sacred. And I can see us down below. And in this image the light above really captured this, humans down below are small passing creatures. There's really beautiful humility in that. I really feel a lot of spirituality in nature, when you have that little person in the vastness of nature. — Julianne Gauron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/98ebed78-2d19-44f2-908a-f7559bad51a4/Guaron-Photo-11.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This image is of the marsh with the sky, flipped, but I realized I like it better this way. But I like it because it blurs the sense of what is real, making that unimportant, and instead awe and beauty leads. — Julianne Gauron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/2a5dab8c-0d3b-4f5b-84d0-138a9604373c/Guaron-Photo-12.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I find spirituality, or feel humble and small, in a good way. That I am part of something big, perpetual, infinite. I saw this guy rowing, an ocean skull. This is kind of insane because it's dangerous, the ocean can have powerful currents here. It had to be a flat day. This seems like an act of faith, the ocean here is pretty fraught. I liked that it is foggy and he is going backwards. So much faith and trust. — Julianne Gauron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f98c433a-f0d3-496d-8a21-055e9ca9561a/Guaron-Photo-13.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I never create still life images. So I wanted to try. When I was walking my dog on the beach, I saw this rock that literally has a cross on it, which sort represents my faith. I always find God, Mother Earth, or whatever it is, this greater power, in nature. (But I was raised Catholic, so there is that history.) Nature, in all her glory, is the ultimate show that there is something bigger than us. These are all items from the beach created by something far bigger than us. — Julianne Gauron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/451e071b-f3f8-49ef-8978-d113820cb383/Gucwa-Photo-2.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life It must have been like someone's leftover, what do they call it? Canvas or easel or something. And also “I am’ is a powerful statement. Who do you want to be and who do you want to be remembered for and remembered as. And then the idea of, I don't know, visitors from heaven looking for people, things are gone, but where do you find this connection to the next world or whatever. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/0dd8e027-168c-4bf4-b210-e5e4be2e9978/Mehta-Photo-2.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life The lamp is a very important element in all the Hinduism prayers. I light the lamp every day in my house because it has very important meanings. So the lamp, like you see here, is made up of brass and copper and this tradition is coming from the ancient legends. These metals and the lamp represent spiritual purity and wisdom. It also dispels the darkness, negative energy from your surroundings and from the material world. I also see lamp rituals in many other religions who belong from different cultures. The other word for lamp is diya. We also have a famous festival that is Diwali, in which we light oil diyas, ghee diyas and lanterns. Everybody has their own tradition in which they connect to God because it is also believed, it brings the triumph of good over evil. This is why these lights and these diyas are offered to the God during morning time and in the evening leaving the afternoon time as it’s considered to be the God’s resting time. So everybody has their own tradition in which the way they connect to the God because it is also believed, it brings the triumph of good over evil. So is why this and this light, when you see the diyas hanging over it, it'll also offer to the God during the time which we see if anybody's coming, we can tell them, okay, this is a time. And then when they are put to sleep, we don't light the diyas. — Sumeet Mehta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/463a42c6-1da4-4373-8f27-7135106c58b9/Gucwa-Photo-6.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is how Judaism shows up in the every day. Shalom means peace, hello and goodbye. And I like that. And it's old like that radio, but it's also alive like the plants around it. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/7cc412af-7e8c-4ee7-a329-8c058758f9a6/Gucwa-Photo-4.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I know cardinals are often associated with this idea of the beyond, but this idea that whenever you see something that makes you think of your loved one or it connects you to another space and time. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/efc3cc52-bb27-4a6a-a82b-3ea00a775c54/Gucwa-Photo-5.JPG Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This picture, it was just garbage on the street, but it's like inviting you to sit down and write your story. I mean, it was someone throwing away this desk and even just this whatever power tool over here that's destroying or constructing or something. And we are all authors of our own story and what are we leave? What message are we going to leave for the next person? And also the idea of what's left behind is family and your legacy and who you have cultivated to be important to you and the values that you have instilled in them. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1b86f753-a164-48ea-8ec2-f6588d435420/Gucwa-Photo-40.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is in reference to the Wailing (Western) Wall, a place of prayer and pilgrimage sacred to the Jewish people. It is the remains of the retaining wall of the First Temple of Jerusalem. It is customary to write notes and prayers and slip them into the cracks in the wall. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/db452f8c-f343-4910-ade3-48419c7ab59b/Carrasco-Photo-23.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I was just in a friend's car and I realized he had a rosary and well, I guess two rosaries, but there just in his car and it's kind of subtle, which I appreciate. And I know from a culture perspective, lots of Latin American people have 'em that use 'em in their traditions. And from what I know and what I heard, they don't necessarily, they have 'em in the car not to pray in the car, but more just as a little reminder and things like that. And so I thought it was really interesting and something I've seen a lot, but I never really looked into why it's a cultural phenomenon within Latinx community within the specific tradition. So it was interesting. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/3aa5bdce-58be-4b17-b89a-7479022f9fdd/Carrasco-Photo-22.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life A lot of prayer beads and have been just happening and just showing up in my life recently. And so this is actually one of the, I guess activities we did with the youth. We presented prayer beads to them and they got to make their own out of just their basic beads to make friendship bracelets and some string with a little cross. And I made one that looks just like that in blue as well. And I just got to capture one of the youth making it. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/89653fe8-da6d-4459-91ff-7f84e397d6fc/Schaus-Photo-6.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life [My husband] spending time in prayer, reading his Bible. He actually was crying a little bit, so this is a very vulnerable moment. You can kind of see him wiping his face. I thought that was just a really beautiful moment. It just captured his heart for the Lord and his faith and his love for God. And it's just really cool being married to him. I get to see those moments that not anyone else might not get to see. And so it just kind of is this beautiful representation of what faith and the sacred moments that happen that not that everyone might not be able to see. — Joanna Schaus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b798ee29-593e-4e89-a564-3ea029fa2d5b/Schaus-Photo-11.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life [When my husband is] praying, he'll oftentimes will hold his necklace. I find that really cool, just like this piece of his life that he carries with him all the time. — Joanna Schaus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/06df7a53-e04e-44a8-ae40-4a8d9286f8e4/Zaid-Photo-5.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This was from Eid prayer, we were all sitting and listening to the sermon that was being given, and I saw this little boy running around and having the time of his life goofing off. I captured him as quick as I could. He was mid run and I thought it was really beautiful that he's goofing off while the Sheikh was giving his talk. It was an amusing sight. The Eid prayer was held outside, in a park. The weather was beautiful, the trees were surrounding us. I loved the imagery that was going on there. — Fatima Zaid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f88bb4db-8c8c-4ec0-a8da-5445b1b67b6a/Carrasco-Photo-13.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is inside the chapel that we use for the school chapel at my school. And it is another of my coworker that does a lot of praying. Praying is how she practices her spirituality. And I really like the contrast of this image and just how connected just her facial expression gives and the close proximity to the cross. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/9681fb22-f502-4df7-8fbf-a8a9e9a334a7/Carrasco-Photo-15.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is Dr. Keith, one of my favorite professors in my program. He teaches chaplaincy, spiritual care, world religions, and he has been one of the most more formative professors I had while I've been in this program and I've learned so much from him. And so it was not planned. I ran into him because I'm on campus teaching youth skills about a theology and stuff. And he just happened to be one of our guest speakers. And so I was talking to him about web and NEP two and telling him about this program and we decided to have a little shoot. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/e789ef1e-83fb-4db7-b36a-75b0f0a8a302/Carrasco-Photo-17.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Dr. Keith meditating. And to me it reminded me of other Buddhism classes where you have the Buddha behind the bodhi tree and just enlightenment. So to me it did depict his personality, but also things I've learned modern day. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/c255f9ea-66ca-40ea-8ad3-ce526b0a5887/Carrasco-Photo-16.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Fun fact, he was always out in the patio, the quad just on campus with his beads meditating. He does lots of mindfulness practices, meditation practices. And so it really is just how he is as a person. He had multiple prayer beads on him. I do not recall which one he ended up using for this, but many traditions have prayer beads include Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and some Christianity denominations. And so yeah, I just got him in his prayer beads and a more zoomed in picture of the prayer beads itself. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/3cb64413-7d39-4dad-b73b-06b414c66383/Gucwa-Photo-9.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I helped this woman who's like 98 years old and she's like this amazing artisan and this is a Talit, which is, it's a Jewish prayer shawl, but she's showing me the embroidery that she did for her grandson and I just think it's pretty cool and she did all the flowers from his different ethnicities and she has a lot of pride in that and it's noted in a specific way. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/246121ea-ce22-4856-b75d-1d8aa980a722/Gucwa-Photo-10.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Flowers bloom outside the old synagogue, claiming where’s there life, there’s hope — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/9a607c99-7d7a-4445-ad8c-4f7fc07a4811/Gucwa-Photo-8.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This next picture is this little square on the wall. It's called a mezuzah and it's like a house blessing and a lot of Jewish people have this on the side of their house. And also this picture 36 is a special number in Jewish because any multiple of 18 means life. So that means double life. So if you get a present from a Jewish person, you might get 18, 36, 54, 70 $2. It's supposed to be a good luck number. And this photo's kind of cool because of the light there. It's just kind of shining on and it's illuminating and giving warmth and light and hope. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/8aa1857d-ed84-471a-b4d4-48478adde861/Gucwa-Photo-11.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life If you are Jewish, whenever you visit a grave, you don't put flowers, you put stones and it's just a piece of a grave with stones on it and the stones represent that someone visited and carved in stone and that was just kind of cool. It is traditional to place stones on the graves to honor deceased, comfort mourners, and to help anchor soul to this world, meaning stones attest to permanence of the soul. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b567dd82-aa6d-4760-9bbd-416f43baa772/Gucwa-Photo-12.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is someone's house that I was creepy looking into, but there's two Shabbat candle holders in the window and they were in the front of the window and it just was very beautiful. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/8163c1a3-2122-44d1-b2f1-1918c317b9e4/Gucwa-Photo-14.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Gentle acts of love, Small unexpected kindness, These are signs of hope — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/6b4a1099-d677-4364-8d94-ac4b8238affb/Gucwa-Photo-16.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life To be holy means to sense The precious sacred in the Every day — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/8cebf31a-0256-4f35-906d-ccb8c6c36672/Schaus-Photo-16.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life We went on a little road trip recently and there's this huge cross, you could see it for miles away and I was like, oh my gosh, we have to stop and take pictures for this project. It just was so unique. I'd just never seen a cross that big at a church before. And so we got out to these pictures and I had him stand and have him looking at the cross. I just wanted it to be kind of more moody and just, yeah, I thought they turned out really cool. — Joanna Schaus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/7c8bef52-e59f-4e03-9b3c-5b38fbcf32a6/Gucwa-Photo-42.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Unbreakable ties, Fluid relationship, yet Lasting covenant — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/051ffdd1-cb49-46b1-870d-182bc5b53584/Gucwa-Photo-17.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life The Star of David (above the doorway) symbolizes connection between God, Israel, the Torah, and people. The seven spaces represent the seven virtues: kindness, severity, harmony, perseverance, splendor, foundation, and royalty. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1fbc6ac5-2a90-4ecc-866c-0be7095d91d4/Gucwa-Photo-43.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is actually a church, but just the way the light was playing in there, it looked like a celebration. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/fa96c8aa-8667-499b-84a2-99dd9a24b802/Schaus-Photo-4.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I photographed my husband (Alejandro) quite a bit for this prompt just because his faith is really beautiful to me. He has a very strong faith and he's just a really interesting in that. This picture is just him flipping through the Bible. I wanted to capture just this idea of movement and your faith not being linear, and it's always kind of changing. You're always growing and learning new things in any faith. — Joanna Schaus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/8c11dc15-172a-46c6-98cc-61225bc38935/Zaid-Photo-2.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Two things that keep me alive, side by side. My Qur’an and my insulin pen. — Fatima Zaid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1a1cc87a-a014-4607-a3b7-45be04bb4de9/Carrasco-Photo-10.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life The Bible I use to take notes in. So I study divinity and currently I'm refreshing on old notes because I'm working at a summer type camp academy that empowers youth to think more theologically and intentionally about the divine. And so yeah, it just represents, I guess me also my spiritual practice where as someone that wants to be a scholar, this is how I interact with the text. And I feel like I grow both in terms of knowledge, but also there's a spiritual connection to me taking notes and studying I guess in a more academic setting. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1d329c6f-39f6-4cda-8362-4664ef7e835f/Gucwa-Photo-20.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I got invited to a shiva. A shiva is like a memorial. It's not memorial. It's like after people die and you go to someone's house and you eat. And I really wanted to, I was having trouble hiding the man's face just for his own whatever, his own protection. But bagels are very traditionally Jewish and they show up at lots of Jewish events. The next one is my aunt has tons of junk laying around her house. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/6c55b8b6-4e7a-4a80-ad57-aac413bfbb3e/Carrasco-Photo-9.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is just the Bible app. It's part of my spirituality. To me it represents me and my generation of just living and constantly being on the phone, but also having those positive reminders to me. It's late at night and it's the time to myself, and it's just a reminder to really focus on myself. And it's the time I probably am the most productive in terms of self-care, spirituality, right before bed. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/a2522ecc-609c-4204-a56e-13c659262035/Gucwa-Photo-24.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life No matter your voice, beliefs, values, healing prayers all sound the same. Hospital prayers rise, protect my love, Grant peace in our bodies and hearts. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/4c8a42cc-37af-41b1-8a6c-9471275aa9ef/Gucwa-Photo-26.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Notice the prayer written in Hebrew script. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/63093bb5-033b-45af-94ce-62c83d75b997/Gucwa-Photo-29.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life BRCA Mutation: Ashkenazi Jews have a higher risk of BRCA gene mutations than the general population. These mutations can increase risk of breast, ovarian, pancreatic, and prostate cancer. Ashkenazi Jews: Jewish people who ancestors lived in France and Central and Eastern Europe. Chai necklace: Hebrew word for life. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b3df9ddd-4eb3-4973-a4bf-50abb19afb6b/Gucwa-Photo-32.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I was doing a mosaic class and I love the idea of bits and pieces coming together and this says shalom, which means peace. And it's like all these broken things coming together to form something beautiful and that's just a good message. [The] piece says Shalom, Hebrew word for peace. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/e2fc24bf-91e9-44c7-8683-b4ff86e04151/Zaid-Photo-4.JPG Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I've been trying to see spirituality through my friends. I love to witness how they use their spirituality or how they practice their faith. For me, I feel the most spiritual in solitude and when I'm praying or I'm one-on-one with God and I'm talking to Him, communicating with Him. I was trying to push myself to decompartmentalize my spirituality and also feel it when I'm in communal settings. In this image, I was on a walk in my neighborhood with a dear friend, and we found this most amazing sunset and it felt like a sign to just sit down and reflect. We had a very deep and intense conversation about different parts of our lives, and I knew I needed to document this moment. — Fatima Zaid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/86c4f71b-bee0-4b7e-bc1d-05eec65ae2b5/Schaus-Photo-17.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is my husband, Alejandro, in the car as he's driving, so you can kind of see the cross there in the distance. — Joanna Schaus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/71608e52-f94b-43f8-955e-9cf41b576fc5/Gucwa-Photo-37.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Sometimes God is loud “Here, I am.” Sometimes God is found In the silence — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/613d50f5-f85d-4a99-873d-40ad43bb561e/Schaus-Photo-5.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life [My husband is] actually sick in bed in this photograph right here. And that kind of spoke to me just because the light was coming in on his face and I just thought it was a beautiful moment of, because I'd spent the week taking care of him and just that reminds me of God and how he takes care of me and just being hospitable towards someone and caring for them is just a way of showing the love of God. And that moment spoke to me. — Joanna Schaus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/c7129e1c-9424-4d01-9a21-edb89c34a697/Gucwa-Photo-47.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Every day is a special day to show and tell people you love them — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/8543a0a9-7dc8-47d1-af56-bfac89657063/Carrasco-Photo-8.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life My dog's name is Cyan, and my cat's name is Alo. We go for daily walks. My cat does enjoy walks, and they got this toy years ago, back when my dog was a puppy, and I used to have Jewish roommates, and they got him a little squeaky toy that's a dog with holding a little dreidel. And this is one of those toys that my dog goes to a lot that still hasn't fully ripped up. — Alan-Joshua Carrasco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f169bfca-89ee-4cc8-8e56-fcdfa7a9cd36/Guaron-Photo-4+Large.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life These photographs are from County Kerry, Ireland. I was trying to give myself permission at the residency to play, explore and photograph things that spoke to me, even if they were not part of a story or project. This was at the top of a hill over the sea cliffs and I was playing around with the fence and the path leading up, just trying to feel. A lot of spirituality is a feeling. It's not necessarily a cognitive thing that makes sense in any logical way. It's more about emotion. And seeing that path and not knowing quite where it went, but up to the light felt spiritual. — Julianne Gauron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/82667bf1-fc8c-4388-a44c-bc0c34240f57/Gucwa-Photo-55.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Shema: a Jewish prayer that is a central affirmation to Judaism. This prayer is the centerpiece of morning and evening Jewish prayer services. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ecfb4f6a-1d2b-4eef-a296-7185d4bb11ed/Gucwa-Photo-56.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This image in the center of the street sign looks like Anne Frank, a young Jewish-German girl who died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. However, it is a just an image from a German postcard and some unrelated propaganda. It would be interesting messaging to use a picture of Anne Frank or other well-known images of people died unjustly in this street art kind of style. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/4ee88493-2c4c-4f7a-a8f3-940589e85164/Gucwa-Photo-25.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Shabbat elevator: an elevator that stops on every floor during the Jewish Sabbath and holidays, allowing people to use the elevator without pressing any buttons, which would be considered work. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b91a5f8d-5f83-4431-b877-204d480d853d/Schaus-Photo-20.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Tessa was making some rice and they have this cross on their wall. — Joanna Schaus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ee3f7447-ea2d-49db-bc3c-0c9cd5653130/Zaid-Photo-6.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This was from a fundraising event, Stand with Gaza. Me and my friend, we have been memorializing the martyrs who have been killed in the genocide in Gaza. We've been painting the portraits of martyrs, the Palestinian martyrs, and we held a memorial service for them there. We simply wanted to honor them as much as we could. — Fatima Zaid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/98bb4f8b-f9c7-470f-bb22-ffe945d9dadc/Schaus-Photo-1.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I really wanted to document this idea of light and dark. I think that's kind of been the theme in my own faith story of just searching for the light. And I wasn't even planning on taking these pictures at the top of these self-portraits, but I went into my room and the light was just coming in really beautifully. And so I kind of captured this idea of prayer and what prayer means to me as a Christian. I think it's a lot of solitude for me. And so I set up this self portrait of just me kind of in the space of solitude and prayer. — Joanna Schaus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/d5510fa6-44be-429e-b4e9-d25f9497e075/Schaus-Photo-3.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I photographed my eye because I feel like I see God so much in other people and I just see him in the everyday instances, in the little instances. And so sight is just a huge way that I experienced God as a very visual person. — Joanna Schaus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/1ea41d17-7bb6-4564-b6fe-1cf2d5cb4b90/Gucwa-Photo-58.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Let us find light in the darkness Let us be the light in the darkness Share your light like a candle Growing brighter with each share — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/c0584f9f-e46d-4df6-a8f1-610beb81ad91/Zaid-Photo-3.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I love chai and I can’t get enough of it. Having little moments and things to appreciate each day really keep my spirituality alive. I am so grateful for times where I can connect with people over chai, or make a family member a cup of tea after a long day. All of these are acts of worship in their own right. (Also, metaphorically speaking, perhaps I am a brown teacup in the midst of many white teacups.) — Fatima Zaid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/9bd2c5af-774c-4119-82f7-bdc11d643b98/Gucwa-Photo-21.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Halal and Kosher Different faith laws, yet both urge Compassionate care — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/aac81bba-7b2f-48c9-b3ac-cefd50b76343/Gucwa-Photo-39.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This one is my friend's arm, which I love that message, but she's wearing a red string, like a cabal string, and it's like it's a protection string and her peace ring and whatever. Red string: Jewish folk custom meant to protect people from harmful forces or the evil eye. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/d173cb7c-e139-4aa7-83fe-db9b467a0d43/Mehta-Photo-3.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This image represents the significance of the bells in the Temples, especially in Hinduism. Bell is believed to be the spiritual holy seat, the spiritual place, the seat of the holy deities. Also when you ring the bell it vibrates the Om sound. Hence when it says Om, the sound brings a lot of positive vibrations around the ambience. It is also believed to align your chakras, and reflect a meditation feeling. It thus brings a lot of high energy in oneself and the people around you. The body of the bell is a belief to be symbolic of the infinity, which is the God itself. So this is how it is all connected. When we go to any Hindu temple, the first thing we do is we ring the temple bell. It brings a pure loud sound, a lot of high energy and high vibrations to oneself and the atmosphere. — Sumeet Mehta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/2f09d309-895b-45c4-a73e-64f55bff520f/Mehta-Photo-4.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is the story in itself, where the priest puts the garland on to the God, known as ‘Sai Baba’. This ritual they do every day, every morning and evening for Arti. This is a ritual to groom the God, keeping it more lively, the itar (perfume), the smell and their presence. So I have a friend of mine who buys the fresh flowers and then they make the garland at home according to the size of the Statue. These are very huge statues. They along with other devoted families offer their time and respect to the Sai baba temple by beading the garland and bringing it to the temple on every Thursday and Saturday consistently be it a snowstorm or a heavy rainfall apart from the closings. — Sumeet Mehta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/0aa3db99-f9af-45a7-9cb9-cc7115145047/Gucwa-Photo-23.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Diners make Jewish food mainstream; Blintzes, latkes, and Matzah ball soup — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/23544197-92a4-4a06-9c7f-c5f0f4b127be/Gucwa-Photo-51.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Rugelach: traditional Jewish cookie — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b19555e6-c829-490d-b909-820fdcd78bcb/Gucwa-Photo-50.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Hamantaschen: pastries made for the Jewish holiday Purim that symbolize the defeated enemy of the Jewish people. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/c93864ad-0300-4633-aec5-b00911199287/Gucwa-Photo-59.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life In Judaism, pomegranates are a symbol of fertility, abundance, sanctity, righteousness, knowledge, and wisdom. It is believed that pomegranates have 613 seeds which corresponds to the 613 commandments in the Torah (The Jewish Holy Book). — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/4de8eeac-664d-4058-ae96-f80938fb9c5a/Gucwa-Photo-48.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Remnants of Tub ’Shevat Seder, where we celebrate the birthday of trees with assorted fruits and the discussion of the relationship between people and nature. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/10284027-bca5-4420-b718-8f484294d168/Gucwa-Photo-60.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is love picture with the plants. I think they have changed the name somewhat, but there's four different kinds of “Wandering Jew” plants in there and I really wanted the image to. Jewish people come in lots of colors and there's a lot of diversity within the group, so the fact that these are all called wandering Jews, but they're all different I think is important. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/a2acdd65-db9e-4793-ad51-0f21d2c521d1/Zaid-Photo-12.JPG Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life That is my friend's apartment, and she had this written on her fridge; “remind me that everything exists in the context of the beauty of God.” She's such a powerful person in my life and I really respect her. I thought that it was really beautiful that she has something so profound casually placed on her fridge. — Fatima Zaid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/a414e7b7-4bcd-49c3-8c86-00fc0a6c8113/Schaus-Photo-19.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This was a verse that was on their wall: “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” I also think that it kind of ties into that Christian nationalism idea that I just really personally reject. I do think it's interesting though. I think it does tie into that idea of religion. If it's something that other people are going to find offensive, then I don't really want to submit it. I don't want to offend someone or give the impression that I agree with that. But I do think it's interesting. I think these people who I photographed that are in our small group, I don't think that they think about it in that way. And so I know that they didn't intend for it to be interpreted in that way by putting it in their house. But for me it is something that I just would never have next to for that reason. So yeah, I'm not sure if it's something that's going to offend. I definitely don't want to submit it, but it is something I definitely thought about and it was intentional to photograph. And also with it being an election year, it's just something that I'm thinking about all the time and it's just really a very subject. — Joanna Schaus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/b7ea4b09-e2f8-419b-bb26-65bc08963ed9/Gucwa-Photo-30.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I really like the hand of God imagery and that's just the light coming in. Hebrew words: prayer for healing and renewal — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/948dd13e-e1cb-45cd-9677-bc7063d11212/Gucwa-Photo-61.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life The next picture is a challah bread, and that is the bread you eat on Shabbat. So it's like a special sweet egg bread. And in some traditions you're supposed to touch somebody who's touching the call and it's a way to connect people and build community and connection amongst people. Challah: sweet, braided bread eaten on Shabbat. It is believed to have many mystical and symbolic meanings. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/48fbea3d-4fe7-43f0-9fd6-be035ef6f4e7/Gucwa-Photo-3.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I know love is real because I exist and love’s the language, I speak — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/5db99f3f-2ea5-40cb-849c-1c462ecf089a/Mehta-Photo-5.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life We have a community swimming pool and the maintenance was cleaning the frogs out of the pool. While they were pulling the frogs out, my younger daughter came and she was calling me to take the photo of that frog. By the time I grabbed my camera, I realized these children from my community were trying to save the frog, although it was from the pool out, but then they were taking it near the shower and putting the water on the frog to be alive and survive. My elder daughter who is now twelve Indian American and her friend Zoey who is American and there were other friends from different cultures like from Southern India, Northern India, and the people who are born up here, they were all trying to save the frog with same intention and same hope although born on different lands or in different cultures. — Sumeet Mehta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ca2e9aef-8314-4637-858d-f295da74de69/Schaus-Photo-9.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life That's what I did this week with the hands and with his necklace and I thought it turned out really cool and we also photographed it at sunset, which has kind of been a theme for me throughout this project. I'll just photograph during sunset. I really love the light and so I'm trying to stay consistent with that, just photographing, making sure that they're the same tone and everything. — Joanna Schaus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/7e310a41-d1e1-4127-b918-e0545fb9e36f/Schaus-Photo-8.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I really see God in hands and people's hands and I just feel like God is reaching towards me or holding me in the palm of his hands. So I wanted to kind of touch on that too and photograph his necklace and his hands. — Joanna Schaus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/50d93bc7-3a9e-452a-9b2c-e14740e993b9/Mehta-Photo-6.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life Steel bangles here are the symbol of Sikhism, black thread is for protection from evil eye in hindus and the green and black nail paint here looks like some flag colors to me of different countries. In Sikhism we have five Ks and this is one of the most simple and very prominent symbols. Either way they will go with steel or either they will go with gold. Gold is just for adults if they ever have to go. But these are easily available in the Sikh temples, known as Gurudwaras. I have also seen these black threads tied up in the monuments, like Muslim monuments in Taj Mahal for fulfilling the wishes. In Hinduism or in a few temples we tie red threads known as ‘moli’ or a ‘kalawa’. So this thread is very important and it brings a lot of desires, wishes and connection to God. So I just felt related to these symbols like a multiculture mixed up and when the children were trying to play with the frog, I just brought the camera and I set up their hands up and down and clicked the photo. — Sumeet Mehta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/27745ae9-56d9-4f15-ab74-eda06267ec86/Zaid-Photo-13.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life That's the IMAN Health Center next to a church, which I thought was a cool juxtaposition, a nice showing of coexistence and love. — Fatima Zaid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/74145389-d41f-4b89-9bf5-879ceebc8f42/Zaid-Photo-15.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This quote is part of a mural inside the IMAN building. “Is there any reward for good other than good?” It really speaks to the essence of Islam and how Muslims need to conduct themselves and how I hope that I do. — Fatima Zaid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/9a2a9d9d-f526-4fc6-b754-334ef07f3ce8/Gucwa-Photo-66.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life We celebrate our freedom And remember those who are still oppressed — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/76fa68d7-8012-4758-ad1f-121586229243/Zaid-Photo-7.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is downtown Chicago. This was a protest on July 4th. Independence Day for the US; I think organizers thought it would be fitting to raise awareness for Palestinian liberation on this day. We are in such a privileged place in the world, it’s the least we can do. I think that that really resonates for Muslim America, not just Muslim America of course, but a lot of Muslims here feel obligated to raise awareness about it. It is a duty for most of us. — Fatima Zaid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/c843eac4-b472-455d-a7f9-d837dfec9439/Zaid-Photo-8.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life — Fatima Zaid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/94f43e10-c9c4-48c7-bd1f-676cff210f6b/Zaid-Photo-9.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life — Fatima Zaid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/241c00b6-ef35-4b05-959b-d2a670496189/Mehta-Photo-8.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life In this photo the lady is trying to pull the Rakhi’s for the festival and the garlands. The man standing behind her is the owner of the Patel brothers. Indians every day when they are coming to their shops or stores in the morning time, they pray and worship in the stores with lighting the incense sticks, dhoop or diya which they are doing everyday as their daily chores. — Sumeet Mehta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/3e00ac9f-8b64-4955-83ec-e6552e6f7201/Mehta-Photo-9.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This grandma is visiting her son and his family from India. Despite now residing far away from her own hometown she doesn’t forget to pray, meditate and remember her chanting and reading scriptures. When her grandchildren, son and daughter in law go out to work and school she utilizes most of her time by reciting her chants, ringing this bell at home which she is now holding. Small temple bell that is again the symbol of Hindu temples. Those rose mixed flowers behind the peacock feather are the offerings to god. Peacock feather is again the strong symbol of Lord Krishna. Another famous deity of Hindus. She at the age of seventies takes the duties of her god to worship him on time everyday in the same way she follows back in India. — Sumeet Mehta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/d118a338-bea7-4b50-b8d0-949e0c27c224/Mehta-Photo-15.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This lady lives in Mt. Vernon, New Hampshire. A lot of things have happened to her in her life medically but the faith and boldness have not faded from her soul. She owns her small farm with chickens, geese and a few ducks. This is her own time where she talks to nature, meditates and chants. Those rudraksha beads are original beads she was gifted by her father. She said she feels so much connected to her dad this way. Sara is originally from Nepal. The shawl is again the strong symbol of temples and deities. I was so glad to spend a day with her to learn more about her spiritual connection with God along with her busy daily chores where she hardly gets any help nor she is able to visit temples for a long time. — Sumeet Mehta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/402db3f3-6c18-49fa-800f-3c4a614364e4/Mehta-Photo-11.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life She's my friend, a beautiful close neighbor friend from Uganda. I'm always curious to know as she's married to an American guy and how their life goes on. So I just went there with my camera and I was talking to them about how they connect to God and everything having two different religions. So she told me, my husband doesn't believe in going to church and all, and I was surprised that they didn't have any cross at home. But while talking to her husband, he got so excited that he went upstairs and brought this statue sculpture. So this is an Indian sculpture statue, which he purchased from thousands of dollars like a long time back from Bali, Indonesia. He Said it very, very close to his heart. This is a sculpture of the Lord Vishnu and Garuda, that is from the Hindu mythology story. He once brought this from Bali, Indonesia years back and he so much followed Hinduism. He learned about these back then and he also told me there are millions of sculptors dispersed after the division of the country. Bali is the only Hindu island there. Those sculptors are making these kinds of beautiful sculptures and selling them at a very high price. I then captured the moment right away when he was telling this story again to his wife and his youngest son only wanted to play with that sculpture. What I liked is how he's cleaning that sculpture, keeping it safe untouched by his three young boys and his devotion and attachment to Hinduism being an American. — Sumeet Mehta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/0868e615-1cb8-49cb-b8fc-b25c01229382/Schaus-Photo-7.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I wanted to do a photo shoot with that necklace and the symbolism that it has for [my husband] personally. He was raised Catholic and he now is Christian, but he wears this necklace all the time. I just did a photo shoot surrounding this necklace. — Joanna Schaus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/fde1e288-c57b-496d-9549-34c5c92eab92/Schaus-Photo-12.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life I photographed my husband lighting the oud (incense) because he connects to God through smell. He always does that before he spends time with God and just kind of experiencing God through smell is a way that he describes himself experiencing God. And so that was fascinating to me. I actually hadn't really thought of that before. I wanted to document that moment. — Joanna Schaus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/cffcba43-fb03-4b88-ba26-5aa358e43566/Gucwa-Photo-65.jpeg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life This is just some graffiti scrawled like a prayer wall in a city train station that I like and I think it kind of summarizes this whole program and it just says, I love the similarities. We are all connected. But actually I took this picture, I work for this organization with people who are homeless and we do a good Friday service in the train station. And so we go around the train station doing this Good Friday service. And that was one of the graffiti. And it's kind of cool how people use the walls as prayer walls. People are always looking for a place to pray. — Rachel Gucwa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ea8dd00e-d06a-41c8-b52f-3f10f7311a53/Guaron-Photo-6.jpg Seeing the Sacred in Everyday Life These pieces of grass grasp they were stuck to the fence and were buffeted in the wind. It looked like something familiar, I think we have all felt this way in hard times in our lives. Like we are just hanging on, trying to remember that things will get better. I don't know. I can't quite articulate any better than that, why it feels so human and spiritual. — Julianne Gauron https://www.interfaithphotovoice.org/portfolio-minnesota daily 0.75 2026-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/fc409c3b-e66d-44ba-85b6-facc19241b46/4O8A4217.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/0a032e97-94ad-4f5d-969a-38817b8fc206/2025-MNMN-Ameera-Curation-2.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival This can be seen as a taunt to wheelchair-bound people, whose access to what's above is cut off by a very intricate and beautiful system, legitimized by its mass appeal. It feels representative of how marginalization works. The cutting off of access to the floor above is made appealing to the viewer, inadvertently making them admire the marginalization of the disabled person. Fascism is beautified to manufacture its support, and even if the very nature of fascism is evident it will not matter to those who support it. — Ameera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/85faa6a0-6009-474d-b407-3ea67483bf86/2025-MNMN-Ashley-Curation-2.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival This tree continues to thrive. Deeply rooted in St. Paul, I don’t know the owners of this house, but I am grateful that they have cut the fence around the tree. This space has been rooted in honor of creation—a reminder to care for the spaces and places around me. — Ashley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/c89eb5b8-798c-4623-9ece-ec477f45deb9/2025-MNMN-Ameera-Curation-1.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival It often feels like the road ahead is uncertain, bleak, and full of traps. In these cases, we move cautiously and look at the big picture. And there is sometimes beauty in that big picture, because it's an expression of humanity. We zoom out and see that all the bleakness, uncertainty, and traps are just expressions of humanity. It's fully human to dehumanize. And that's the scary part. — Ameera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/9464e1b4-5364-49a8-a2ff-902cca7d76c0/2025-MNMN-Ashley-Curation-1.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival This little pup is one stubborn girl. She is a daily reminder for me to step into my own power. As a dog-mom, who also longs to be a human-mom, she is an overflowing bundle of love. She fills our world and gives us hope for what can be. — Ashley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/4710d808-0ec6-4dbe-9c5f-859b459e724d/2025-MNMN-Ameera-Curation-3.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival We build community by eating together and having yummy desserts! And what is the purpose of community if not to share in the experience of being human? We laugh, we eat and enjoy, we grieve, we rage, we hope, and we pray—all in community. I would rather go through hell with my people than enjoy heaven alone. And true enlightenment is understanding that all of humanity is my people. — Ameera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/c540d3e8-93f0-47ee-b8d7-5051e5ea5b62/2025-MNMN-Ashley-Curation-3.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival A rhubarb needs time, depth, and a deep freeze before it is ready. This plant was put into the ground after my Grandma Alice died. She lived her life with joy and welcome. She also loved rhubarb. When I harvest it, I think of her. She created a world that made me feel whole and I long to continue her legacy. — Ashley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/7558fafd-07ee-4b10-af1f-86d36d59bbb6/2025-MNMN-Jack-Curation-2.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival On the first day of spring, Dairy Queen gives away free ice cream cones. It’s an important reminder to have fun and enjoy this wonderful life. Anyone can try and win a medal at the trauma Olympics, but I want to be a gold medalist at having fun and enjoying my time on this earth. — Jack https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/d51010c0-a8da-4e01-a9e8-895f3b6b1f12/4O8A4215.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/240f6ab1-d501-4cd4-b02f-3f444cebeb0d/2025-MNMN-Jack-Curation-3.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival This is a picture of my grandpa and me at my sister’s wedding. I chose this picture because we should find mentors and stick very close to them. Some people don’t have the luxury of having family as mentors. But you can still find someone and call them and talk as much as you can. — Jack https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/9de7416b-ef71-43f1-ac4e-2e204cbc0ca7/2025-MNMN-Ashley-Curation-4.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival If there is one thing my faith has informed me it is to enter into places and spaces with peace. Rooted in that peace is a love greater than I can imagine. If I can share an ounce of this peace with others, my vision for the future, it is also a reminder to extend this same love and peace to myself. — Ashley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/3a3a1af4-d205-4cc2-9921-d0db645ceacf/2025-MNMN-Kyle-Curation-2.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival How does a person become a part of a group? How does the group become a part of a community? How does the community become a part of the whole? And how does the whole bless the world? — Kyle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/8b152f6f-71d5-4b61-899e-ed1d53a23c66/2025-MNMN-Jack-Curation-1.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival Having fun with my friends at the Mall of America and taking a picture with a ninja turtle. This picture shows the humility that we young people have and that we need to spread more to make sure people are having fun in this world. — Jack https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/c1236b3c-f74d-4eb2-8995-b0c89a41e20a/2025-MNMN-Kyle-Curation-1.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival Can conversations over food—blessed by gratitude—in the form of a faithful prayer—change the way we see the world—through a transformed experience of the person sitting across from us? What if we were to lead with gratitude—in order to have faith in each other—so that our conversations can mirror the abundant harvest in our midst—as an antidote to the illusion of manufactured scarcity—that is so often both the cause and symptom of faithless division? — Kyle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/4d9bc176-853d-4f0c-a3f8-ee6c2ac09a9f/2025-MNMN-Marleigh-Curation-1.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival Like this glowing mass of frozen ice, holding in your emotions can look calm and collected on the outside— but underneath, there’s pressure building, layers forming, and feelings hardening. Eventually, what’s been buried too long starts to drip, crack, and spill over no matter how bright the colors you hide it behind. — Sarah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/2f75ad0e-4d7a-4307-8f58-9b88032ec85e/2025-MNMN-Ron-Curation-1.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival Integrated mystical art: finding commonalities in practice with a living practice, finding peace in diversity, opposing spiritual leaders, and dreaming that we all need to find our peaceful way forward. — Ron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ff916ef3-2d7e-47fb-b58b-ffd2837826be/2025-MNMN-Rutger-7.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival During our time participating in the photovoice sessions, we discussed the theme of belonging. I chose this photo of the living room of my college house because the house is passed down from previous tenants to guys they’d like to carry the ways of the house on. The house is rugged and accommodating, but it’s been used to host gatherings for friends and classmates forever. My older friends told me they wanted me and my friends living there because we “fit,” and that’s when I felt I really belonged. — Rutger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/cad2b4e1-c837-4d6e-a847-4ffefcf5e1d0/2025-MNMN-Marleigh-Curation-2.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival The photo of a church against a vibrant sunset symbolizes the beauty of faith, where the warm colors of the sky seem to reflect the light that belief can bring into one’s life. The church stands as a reminder of the strength and peace faith offers, its silhouette grounding the viewer in the eternal pursuit of something greater. Yet, for some, the image may evoke a feeling of longing, as the sunset represents a beauty that feels just beyond reach. In both the certainty and the struggle, there is beauty in the search for faith, a reminder that the journey itself holds value. — Marleigh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f6a02edb-8304-4b8c-9a5d-410a6b594337/2025-MNMN-Rutger-1.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival In terms of everyday ritual and practice, I spend a lot of time at the St. Thomas Library, not because I need to, but the design and attention to detail of the building, and the campus overall, helps me practice gratitude, something I involve in nightly prayer. Having a beautiful sky in addition to beautiful buildings makes it so easy to be grateful. — Rutger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/bea056b8-b972-4c8a-886a-afcb2dd21a75/2025-MNMN-Ron-Curation-2-2.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival Saving my ass I am now done with chemo / How noble it is to be a sicko / After six chemos / Left me with sparkly eyes / How grateful it is to be alive / To the VA workers who knew and a few who did not / know their jive / The shields and masks were up to the task / For all the workers who risk their lives / To save my ass — Ron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/24c0c4e9-fee3-4226-bb6b-5cccd74a2b44/4O8A4218.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/bf6961ff-0a2f-4c26-964a-e371dbd56109/2025-MNMN-Marleigh-Curation-4.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival The image of jellyfish flowing gracefully through deep blue waters evokes a sense of craving for the gentle flow of life, moving with purpose despite the surrounding darkness. Their serene movements remind us that even in the most turbulent of times there is always a calm within the storm. The peaceful rhythm of the jellyfish reflects the hope that, no matter how overwhelming life may feel, tranquility can still be found in the midst of chaos. — Marleigh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/65c7dc54-b241-4d0c-850d-59b7f9595191/4O8A4169.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/7e929a19-4804-419a-85ee-9a2894f1b65e/2025-MNMN-Marleigh-Curation-3.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival Life can feel like this rugged, endless landscape harsh, jagged, and stretching on with no clear path. But even in the toughest terrain, the sky reminds us there’s still light, still space to breathe, and still beauty in the struggle. — Marleigh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/f21c1f21-6f05-4de3-86e0-200f65a2adc0/2025-MNMN-Ron-Curation-5.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival This photo exemplifies that there is another etheric energy that cannot always be seen but exists. — Ron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/13c60184-fe6f-4e41-a6cd-2fbd7f767094/2025-MNMN-Rutger-4.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival One way I learned to give and belong more to my community was through volunteering for Habitat for Humanity. I wasn’t thrilled about going, but as the sessions moved forward, it was so fun meeting volunteers I had not previously met, and they taught me so many valuable lessons about home repair and construction that I can take with me for the rest of my life. — Rutger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/ee7f15c5-e52c-46c5-a61c-469acfec3f6c/2025-MNMN-Kyle-Curation-3.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival We already share the same earth, the same land, the same water, the same air, and undeniably the same home. Surely, our liberation is mutual, and only I can be free when so too is the person next to me. What steps can I take daily to ensure my path toward thriving is a collective one rooted in both individuality and community? — Kyle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d93b6bae4f3935a0789bee/12e03399-31fa-4a91-ae25-e74bf9ea8a07/4O8A4174.jpg Seeing Minnesota Deeply: Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival