Posts by: aclauhs

Abigail Clauhs is a student at Boston University, where she is majoring in religion and minoring in English, anthropology, and Twitter addiction. With a dedication to diversity and interfaith cooperation, Abigail leads the Boston University Interfaith Council, where she coordinates discussions and interfaith service events among many Boston-area colleges.

She cares deeply about fostering dialogue and understanding between people of various walks of life and worldviews. In addition, she has a love for community service that has led her to teach classes to immigrants and refugees, rebuild homes after Hurricane Katrina, and volunteer with international seafarers in the port of her hometown in Charleston, South Carolina.

A longtime fondness for the written word inspires her to work with the Boston University Literary Society, where she is an editor for the literary journal Clarion, as well as to tutor at the Boston University Writing Center. In her spare time, she can often be found on a park bench with her notebook, scribbling poetry and generally looking like a pretentious hipster.

In 2012, she was selected to be a Millennial Values Fellow at the Millennial Values Symposium held by Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; she has also received a fellowship from the Fund for Theological Education.

After graduation, Abigail hopes to pursue a career in the nonprofit/NGO world doing interfaith humanitarian work.

Before We Eat

Saying grace–in other words, praying before a meal–is an important ritual in my family’s mealtimes. As children, we would always dread the moment, because my father would call on me or my brother or my sister to say the blessing. There is no pressure–especially at larger family gatherings with generation upon generation of family members […]

Conversations Over (Kosher) Cookies

Last night, I was at Marsh Chapel for around four hours. No, don’t worry. We haven’t instituted some Puritanical four-hour-long Tuesday night service (though extra-long services would be in the New England tradition…). I was there for the Boston University Interfaith Council’s kickoff event. The Interfaith Council is the group I run (technically, my title […]

Big Questions: In Which Abigail Uses an Over-Extended Metaphor

This week, we are supposed to write about the big questions. No pressure. Just some little queries like: Why am I here? What is driving me? You know, the kind of existentialist things that philosophers have been stroking their beards about since the beginning of time. Ok, I’m being snarky. Self examination is important. And […]

Not Quite Salsa Dancing

By: Abigail Clauhs When I came to BU, I knew that I wanted to join the literary magazine. Or maybe the Quidditch team. Possibly even the salsa dancing club. (Granted, most of those activities require more coordination than I have ever possessed). If you had told someone who knew me—or, let’s be honest, if you […]