Acts Of Faith Summary

It was a pleasure to read the book Acts Of Faith. I found it to be a very well written, and easy to understand. The author’s main point is to emphasize the importance of interreligious dialogue, especially among youth. The author, Eboo Patel, writes this book as an autobiography starting when he was a child, and continuing until he is about thirty, and has founded the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), biased in Chicago. He begins the book by illustrating the London bombings that occurred on July 7, 2005. He does this to illustrate the idea that if youth are not directed properly in their religious beliefs they can be turned violent by propaganda provided to them from the wrong people. Patel further illustrates this fact later in the book when …show more content…
Here he became involved in the youth leadership counsel, and many volunteer projects, and he found his love for serving others. Patel’s parents encouraged this service attitude, and the reader finds out that his family has always been very involved in serving others, and treats service as a fundamental point of their Islamic faith. His parents go so far as to deny him when he asks to drop out of the leadership counsel when he is in high school, and explaining that service is a fundamental part of their Islamic faith. Patel continues his service while attending college, and becomes involved in many organizations including the Catholic Workers House founded by Dorothy Day. It was the Catholic Workers House that Patel became interested in the since of community found in religion. Patel always in his adult life was looking for a since of community, and liked to surround himself with like-minded people. Brother Wayne Teasdale, who first introduced the idea of starting an interfaith youth movement to Patel, had a great influence on Patel’s spiritual growth. Upon attending several interfaith seminars, and discussions Patel agreed with Brother Wayne’s idea that he should begin a youth biased interfaith