I invite you to explore hope this week. Snap a few photos. Share your story with others. And let us know what happens in you and through you.

Our event gathered seven students from different religious and spiritual backgrounds for a conversation about where their beliefs, practices, and values show up in everyday life. After the workshop, one of the participants emailed to share about their experience. Their words pointed to two outcomes that we have seen over and over again.

Most people know what it feels like to be left out of a school community. Maybe you were the last person selected in middle school kickball or perhaps you always sat alone in the high school cafeteria. Whatever it is, this feeling of loneliness or isolation is often the first step in what Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, the Executive Director of the International Interfaith Research Lab at Columbia Teachers College, calls “educational displacement.”

To make a real, tangible, and lasting impact on our communities, we first have to listen to and try to understand one another’s stories.

“In short, the drawing-based study helped illuminate aspects of spirituality that may not have been noticed otherwise.”

An Introduction to photovoice and our project.

Interfaith Photovoice brings together people from different cultural backgrounds.

Photovoice enabled participants, researchers, and those who viewed their exhibition to see the world through one another’s lenses.

Religion is highly visible in the daily activities of Canadians yet the visibility of religious diversity has become a source of tension and conflict.