What: “Faith: The Great Fault Line of the 21st Century,” a lecture by Eboo Patel, Founder and Executive Director of Interfaith Youth Core, Chicago, Illinois.  “The local is where the global happens,” writes Dr. Patel in Building the Interfaith Youth Movement. Particularly in the realm of interfaith youth service, it is a principle that has guided Patel’s work: look around at what you can do about an issue or a problem figure out a way to make a difference and bit by bit a larger global impact becomes possible.

When: Wednesday, November 7 ~ 7:30 p.m.

Where: Chapel on the Trinity College campus

Background: Eboo Patel is the founder and executive director of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), a Chicago-based international organization that brings together young people from different faith communities to build understanding and cooperation. He earned his doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes Scholarship.  He is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation, released in June 2007. Eboo serves as an online panelist for the "On Faith" blog, co-hosted by The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine.  He also serves on the Religious Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation USA, the Advisory Board of Duke University's Islamic Studies Center, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He has written for The Chicago Tribune, The Journal of Muslim Law and Culture, The Harvard Divinity School Bulletin and National Public Radio. Eboo is an Ashoka Fellow, part of a select group of social entrepreneurs whose ideas are changing the world, and was featured in Islamica Magazine as one of the leading young Muslim visionaries in The United States.  For more information about Patel’s IFYC program, go to http://www.ifyc.org. 

This event is free and open to the public.  For more information, please call (860) 297-2012 or go to www.trincoll.edu/StudentLife/ReligiousSpiritual/Chapel/Aniversary