This session will describe how growing up in a Southern Baptist, super conservative household shaped my views of diversity and challenged me to accept the idea of interfaith. As I have grown I realized that I held my own views separate from what I was being taught, and that I loved the idea of interfaith cooperation. With much backlash from those who I had grown up with, I came to see that being an interfaith supporter would not be easy. Especially entering college, I realized that I wanted to find a way to define my own beliefs and not how my beliefs defined me. The college that I go to is representative of over 30 nations and multiple faith groups. I want to describe how I came to define myself as not a southern baptist, but a christian humanist through my interaction with other students and faith communities.
