The author and his fiancé.
“It’s like when one person likes chocolate and one person likes vanilla, but they both hate bigotry,” I said, explaining to my father how his son a Hillel director was dating an ordained Christian minister.
Our faiths may be different, but our values are the same.
Jen and I first met in January 2020 just three months before the start of the first COVID-19 quarantines in the United States. Our first date was a whirlwind of excited conversation around spirituality, ethics and how funny it was that we professionals in our different religious traditions were on a date together.