Eboo Patel, as a new friend of the podcast, works to build mutual respect and pluralism among religiously diverse young people by empowering them to work together in service to others through the Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core. He is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. He holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University and serves as an online panelist for the “On Faith” blog, co-hosted by The Washington Post and Newsweek Magazine. He has written for The Chicago Tribune, The Journal of Muslim Law and Culture, and The Harvard Divinity School Bulletin, and appeared on National Public Radio.

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