Building interfaith community

A new initiative by the Presidential Initiative on Interfaith Engagement draws students seeking connection across difference.
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Three students sitting on the ground and working together during an event.

As 30 undergraduate students gathered in the Smith Campus Center’s Riverview Commons, the goal was simple: Come up with a new interfaith event for the spring semester.

The group didn’t have to limit itself to one. Getzel Davis, inaugural director of Interfaith Engagement at Harvard, encouraged everyone to break off into pairs. Within two minutes, students had spread across the room, workshopping more than a half-dozen ideas on big sheets of paper that they stuck to the walls.

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