  {"id":14836,"date":"2026-10-21T15:59:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=14836"},"modified":"2026-10-21T15:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T20:59:51","slug":"professor-najeeba-syeed-discusses-community-and-forgiveness-in-vox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2026\/10\/21\/professor-najeeba-syeed-discusses-community-and-forgiveness-in-vox\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Najeeba Syeed discusses community and forgiveness in Vox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Âé¶¹Çø professor Najeeba Syeed was featured in an October 21 Vox column by Casper ter Kuile about what different spiritual traditions teach about responding to anger\u2014and how to move from anger to compassion.<\/p>\n<p>Syeed, the El-Hibri Endowed Professor of Interfaith Studies and executive director of Âé¶¹Çø&#8217;s Interfaith Institute, spoke to ter Kuile about the necessity of working together in community.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[Anger] makes us incapable of seeing the experience of others,&#8221; she said. &#8220;&#8230; If we don\u2019t have a larger identity than our political affiliation\u2014by that I mean the neighborliness, some sense of community that transcends that identitarian political affiliation alone\u2014then we may actually destroy ourselves in the process &#8230; If you [take action] by yourself, is it really going to change at the social level? You still have to be able to build allies, and you still have to be able to build connection.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article explores approaches to navigating anger rooted in Buddhism, Judaism, and Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full column (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/\">Vox<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/advice\/506689\/righteous-anger-spirituality?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Ijk4Wlg3cUJTZFMiLCJwIjoiL2FkdmljZS81MDY2ODkvcmlnaHRlb3VzLWFuZ2VyLXNwaXJpdHVhbGl0eSIsImV4cCI6MTc5MzgwMjU5NiwiaWF0IjoxNzkyNTkyOTk2fQ.LrFHq2Fvnwy3Lla0ExxN3c4JSgGwH4RCkDDzjNhzTlw&amp;utm_medium=gift-link\">&#8220;What to do if you feel so, so angry at the state of the world&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Âé¶¹Çø professor Najeeba Syeed was featured in an October 21 Vox column by Casper ter Kuile about what different spiritual traditions teach about responding to anger\u2014and how to move from anger to compassion. Syeed, the El-Hibri Endowed Professor of Interfaith Studies and executive director of Âé¶¹Çø&#8217;s Interfaith Institute, spoke to ter Kuile about the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14836"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14843,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14836\/revisions\/14843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}