
“These are the characteristics we associate with men, and having a God like that essentially reinforces and justifies men having exclusive power over women, children, feminized men and marginalized other people,” Shaw said during a recent episode of The State of Belief, a podcast moderated by Interfaith Alliance President Paul Raushenbush.
“We really wanted to explore the ways those images, that language and those beliefs have created a framework that enables abuse in the church and then at the same time minimizes what happens to survivors because they’re merely women or they’re less important.”
For most of my life, I understood Hinduism as one single set of practices. As a child, I was sent to Hindu Sunday school where I learned about Hindu philosophies, stories, holidays, rituals, and more. It was only after turning 17 that I realized that my family practiced something entirely different than what Sunday school had been teaching me

On August 15th, Interfaith Alliance joined 125 other organizations to express concern over President Trump’s decision to assert control over the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and to deploy the National Guard throughout the city. Rather than helping to protect DC communities, this decision represents a terrifying instance of executive overreach to amass political power and to undermine our democracy.