Faith as a Bomb, Faith as a Bridge: Building a 21st Century Interfaith Movement. Published in Partnership with Forbes.com Article Highlights: It is commonplace to analyze the impact of religious extremism and the civil rights movement through impersonal forces like ‘the nature of religion’ or ‘the right historical moment.’ I think the lens of social entrepreneurship is more accurate and more useful.The purpose of connecting Osama bin Laden and Martin Luther King Jr. is to illustrate how the resources of religion can be mobilized by leaders in ways that creates great good or great harm.Movements whose core value is that faith is a barrier of division or a bomb of destruction have proven exceptional at growing because of their ability to advance core narratives using the language of religion, embed their programs in faith-based institutions and nurture other high-impact leaders who carry out their vision.
I want to begin with a disturbing idea: Osama bin Laden and Martin Luther King Jr. have more in common than we might think.
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