Interfaith Trivia

Last night the interfaith companions hosted an interfaith trivia night. One of the best parts of the event was the preparation that went into it. About a month ago I started doing research to create the questions. It was fun to research and learn about the food, clothes, holidays, important people, sacred cities, and texts of different faith traditions. It is probably the religious studies major in me that ended up spending so much time reading about all these different topics to come up with the trivia questions. I think it really speaks to why I am interning in interfaith ministry, because I am genuinely interested in other religions and want to teach others about them too. It was wonderful to see my work come to life as the students worked through the five rounds of trivia questions I had created. I was proud of the work I had done and excited to be sharing my knowledge of diverse faith traditions with other students. There was a positive atmosphere during the whole event. It was fun and also brought interfaith dialogue alive as students talked about the answers or questions that they learned new things from. It reminded me that I am blessed to go to a university where interfaith programming is valued, and how extremely blessed I am to be a part of it.

-Elaina Jo