Category: Challenges
NYPD’s outdated policy perpetuates anti-Sikh stereotypes
Originally Published with Al Jazeera America For the second time in a month, a Sikh-American was physically assaulted in a reported hate crime in New York City. On July 30, a man in a pickup truck dir... Read More
The Generalization of Outrage
The dawning awareness in the US about the barbarism of QSIS has provoked a new round of the same old anti-Muslim rhetoric from the usual sources. Frequently these denunciations follow a predictabl... Read More
Another Apparent Sikh Hate Crime in NYC
Originally Published in The Huffington Post Two years ago, the nation came together when a white supremacist entered a gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin and opened fire on the congregation. It was the ... Read More
Sikh’ing Equal Treatment: Why FIBA’s rules are discriminatory, unfair and have no place in international sports competition.
Originally Published on The Cauldron of medium.com International basketball’s governing body, the Federation Interenationale de Basket-ball (“FIBA”), will meet in Spain next week to determine th... Read More
Another Understanding of Our Spiritual Responsibilities – Part 1
Recently I have been trying to reflect on how, as people of faith or beings of spiritual countenance, we can try to envisage our responsibilities to the land we live in, the planet we inhabit and the ... Read More
God Weeps and God Delights
Rev. Nancy Taylor, senior minister of Old South Church in Boston, recently wrote a reflection for the United Church of Christ’s Still Speaking Daily Devotionals. In it, she addresses the seemingly r... Read More
Welcoming the Secular: A Call to Both Sides
Last week I attended the North American Interfaith Network’s annual conference in Detroit, MI. After four days of panels, community excursions, and intensive networking I returned home exhausted but... Read More
“You Ain’t Never Had a Friend Like Me”: On Robin Williams, Suicide, Ultimate Concern, and Actual Hope for the Rest of Us, Part I
*TRIGGER WARNINGS* suicide, self-harm, depression Over this past month, prompted by Ramadan, I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a good person in the world. It’s way harder than... Read More