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Eboo Patel

Chicago

President, Interfaith America. Follow @InterfaithUSA. Author, ‘We Need To Build’. Podcast: https://t.co/aQhOpTapZr. [email protected]

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  • Harvard, Public Trust, and a Warning for the Nonprofit Sector

    2 weeks ago | philanthropy.com | Eboo Patel

    A few weeks ago, Steve Kerr, the head coach of the Golden State Warriors, made an important political statement by wearing a Harvard T-shirt to a postgame news conference. When asked if the shirt was about the Trump administration’s threats against the university, Kerr lauded Harvard for “standing up to the bully” and spoke about his support for both academic freedom and the independence of civic institutions.

  • The Pluralism Pope: A Light for Our Dark Divisions

    3 weeks ago | philanthropy.com | Eboo Patel

    While I’m a Muslim, I am fond of citing Catholic philosophers and theologians on pluralism. I quote Father John Courtney Murray, a mid-20th-century Jesuit leader, and his definition of pluralist civilization as a society where people of diverse identities and divergent ideologies live and talk together. I often talk about Father Ted Hesburgh’s description of the University of Notre Dame, the institution he led for 35 years, as a “lighthouse and a crossroads,” a model for all campuses.

  • Cory Booker Set a High Bar for Toughness. The Nonprofit World Should Aim to Reach It.

    1 month ago | philanthropy.com | Eboo Patel

    Last week, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker showed what toughness looks like in an era when fighting for a just society is a nonstop endurance test. Booker, one of only 14 African Americans to ever serve in the Senate, spoke against Trump administration policies for more than 25 hours straight without a bathroom break, surpassing Senator Strom Thurmond’s previous record — in that case for a speech opposing civil rights legislation.

  • Teach Pluralism, Not Antiracism

    1 month ago | persuasion.community | Eboo Patel

    The following is adapted from “An Alternative to Antiracism” published in the recent Diversity issue of SAPIR, a journal of ideas for a thriving Jewish future.

  • Eboo Patel: University of Chicago religious scholar believed pluralism brings out our best

    2 months ago | chicagotribune.com | Eboo Patel

    In 2002, I found out University of Chicago professor Martin Marty was speaking at a fundraising event in Chicago. I was a graduate student at the time, finishing up my doctoral thesis on religion and modernity, and I also was starting my organization Interfaith America, then called Interfaith Youth Core. Marty’s scholarly writings had influenced me profoundly.

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Eboo Patel
Eboo Patel @EbooPatel
20 Apr 25

Hey @JacobZHess - great @Deseret piece on peacemakers and pluralism builders. Thanks for including me on your list. https://t.co/28YVrPEB9Y

Eboo Patel
Eboo Patel @EbooPatel
20 Apr 25

Beautiful interview by @laurencjackson with my friend, the great @kristatippett , on how to talk about religion across lines of difference. https://t.co/1vtEe2foD2

Eboo Patel
Eboo Patel @EbooPatel
16 Apr 25

RT @faithangleforum: Great piece from @emmaogreen in @NewYorker featuring @EbooPatel https://t.co/8hqVMYMlky