What happens when a poet, a rabbi and an imam walk into a room - not to debate, but to listen?
In this special live episode of Wisdom and Practice, Simran moderates an honest, soul-stretching panel at NYU’s Fritzi Weitzmann Owens Memorial Lecture with Kaitlyn B. Curtice, Dr. Shaykh Faiyaz Jaffer, and Rabbi Joshua Stanton.
Together, they wrestle with the tensions and truths of interfaith work - its’ beauty, its’ burdens and its’ urgent relevance today.
They dive into the power of empathy, the gift of doubt, and what it means to scale compassion in divided times.
With wisdom from diverse traditions and lived experience, this conversation reimagines faith not as a fixed doctrine, but as a living, evolving practice of showing up for ourselves and each other.
Special thanks to NYU, for the use of this audio.
This panel was hosted by: Melissa Carter, EdD - Global Spiritual Life Senior Director and Head of Mindfulness Education and Programming at NYU
Coordinated by: Chelsea Garbell - Associate Director, Global Spiritual Life, Robert Taylor, Jr Assistant Director Global Spiritual Life at NYU
And it was recorded and edited by:
NYU-TV
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Wisdom & Practice is produced in partnership with PRX and the Aspen Institute, with support from the John Templeton Foundation.
Music by Raj Kanwal Singh.
This episode was produced by associate producer, Serena Chow, producer, Rithu Jagannath and senior producer, Morgan Flannery. Our project manager is Edwin Ochoa, our show is mixed by Tommy Bazarian and the executive producer of PRX Productions is Jocelyn Gonzales.
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