Snow
My name is Rahim Taliesin Snow and I am the baker-in-chief of Ivory Bakery and the host of the learning blog + podcast, Religion 2.0. I am working to create a framework for religious education that draws on the wisdom of the world’s religions.
This is my life’s playful work because I have been, knowingly or unknowingly, preparing myself as well as being prepared to do this work since the early years of my childhood. Though my mother and father were devout Muslims, they were also fond of learning about other religions and having respectful conversations about them. I inherited quite a bit of that from them. As I grew older, my interests led me deeper into the world religions as well as mythology, psychology, philosophy, literature, and technology.
While I pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology during my undergrad years, I was still passionately preoccupied with studying the words, ideas, and practices of the world’s religions. After I graduated, I decided to formalize my passion by traveling to England and immersing myself for 3 years in an interdisciplinary study of religion in an academic setting. I completed my studies there by earning a Master’s degree in Religion from the University of Oxford.
When I was studying in England, I would fly back to Atlanta during holidays and this is how my airplane conversations typically went on the flights back:
| Passenger: | So what were you doing in England? |
| Rahim: | I’m in grad school. And you? |
| Passenger: | Oh I was visiting some family. What are you studying? |
| Rahim: | Religion. |
| Passenger: | Interesting. What kind of religion? |
| Rahim: | World religions, trying to see what they have in common as well as their differences from a historical, philosophical, psychological point of view. |
| Passenger: | Very interesting. What was your undergrad degree in? |
| Rahim: | Computer Science. |
| Pasenger: | (laughs) OK, I wasn’t expecting that. |
| Rahim: | I get that a lot. |
| Passenger: | They’re so different. I don’t know, maybe you could combine them somehow…? |
| Rahim: | Maybe… |
Ivory Bakery and Religion 2.0 are the first fruits to appear from the mingling and remixing of my religion and computer science backgrounds.
If you want a little taste of who I am and what I’m doing in this world, I invite you to read my New Year’s Benediction.
If you want to find out why I’m so interested in religion specifically, I invite you to listen to Episode 1 of the Religion 2.0 podcast.
If you would like to share with me how what I’m doing might serve your own religious educational needs better or if you have any other feedback for me, please send me a message.
Bon Appétit!
