Faith
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I held on when I arrived at Yale at 18, with the
faith
that my journey from Oak Cliff, Texas was a chance to leave behind all the challenges I had known, the broken dreams and broken bodies I had seen.
I do not have a gospel of
faith
to share with you today, in fact.
And with that understanding, you should have witnessed, in fact, part of you were, the spread of ingenuity and excitement that went through, first through nonnational governments, the private sector, captains of industry, insurance companies, investors, city leaders,
faith
communities, because they all began to understand, this actually can be in their interest.
For example, how does your worldview react when you see this image: (Video) Dalia Mogahed: What do you think when you look at me? "A woman of faith," "an expert," maybe even "a sister"?
To them, it didn't matter if I was rich or poor, the color of my skin, whether I was male or female, my sexual orientation, who I voted for, whether I was educated, if I had a
faith
or no
faith
at all.
Once change became my totalizing faith, I could be blind.
Or we can turn outward, cultivate
faith
in our ability to reach out, to connect, to create.
When we vote, even if it is in anger, we are part of a collective, creative leap of
faith.
But, determined not to let this one incident make me lose
faith
in the solidarity in my community or humanity as a whole, I recalled the 7/7 terrorist bombings in July 2005 on London transport, and how the mayor of London at the time, and indeed my own parents, had insisted that we all get back on the tubes the next day, so we wouldn't be defined or changed by those that had made us feel unsafe.
Now, when you view trust through this lens, it starts to explain why it has the unique capacity to enable us to cope with uncertainty, to place our
faith
in strangers, to keep moving forward.
I had lost
faith
and hope in the world, and I had given up on the system because the system had failed me.
They were murdered by their neighbor because of their faith, because of a piece of cloth they chose to don on their heads, because they were visibly Muslim.
Within a month, she joined the faculty at the University of Virginia, where she now works on pluralism, race,
faith
and culture.
That takes an enormous amount of
faith
and dedication.
This ought to concern deeply those of us who care about the future of religion and the future of
faith.
There is a better way, one that doesn't force kids of color into a double bind; a way for them to preserve their ties to their families, homes and communities; a way that teaches them to trust their instincts and to have
faith
in their own creative genius.
Good science, imagination and a leap of
faith
are the trifecta we use to raise the dead.
It had to be open, welcoming to people of all faiths, walks of life, backgrounds, or no
faith
at all; a new form of sacred space with no pattern or models to draw from.
It couldn't possibly be that you've just come to a different conclusion in good
faith?
What made disagreement tolerable, what it made it possible for us to share a life, even when we didn't share a faith, was a virtue, but one, I think, that is perhaps less aspirational and a lot more confrontational than the one that people who talk about civility a lot today tend to have in mind.
You may use your
faith
to make people afraid and terrify them into submission, or you can use it to give courage to people so they rise to the greatest heights of enlightenment.
But the most courageous thing we do every day is we practice
faith
that goes beyond the facts, and we put feet to our prayers every single day, and when we get overwhelmed, we think of the words of people like Sonia Sanchez, a poet laureate, who says, "Morgan, where is your fire?
I was angry at those men who had warped my
faith
into a vengeful weapon, and at the same time at the media for propagating those stereotypes.
So, often it's easier for us to wrap ourselves in our cozy information bubbles, live in bad faith, and take those bubbles as the measure of reality.
An example, I think, of how this bad
faith
gets into our action is our reaction to the phenomenon of fake news.
That's an example of the bad
faith
towards the truth that I'm talking about.
But that's another example of the bad
faith
towards the truth that I've been talking about.
It helps us breathe again and again and gives us back to ourselves, and this gives us
faith
in life and each other.
I mean, my realm is sort of
faith
and writing and kind of lurching along together.
The third step is to learn how to develop
faith.
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