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It’s Just a Cartoon. Right?

It’s Just a Cartoon. Right?

Posted on October 22, 2012October 22, 2012 by Phillipe Copeland
Listening to National Public Radio while you’re driving can be hazardous.  Once again I almost drove off the road. The reporter was talking about a fourteen year old girl in Pakistan, hunted do... Read More
Malala Yousufsai: A Voice of Faith for Youth, Women, and Humanity

Malala Yousufsai: A Voice of Faith for Youth, Women, and Humanity

Posted on October 21, 2012October 20, 2012 by Wilfredo Amr Ruiz
Malala Yousufsai is a 14 year-old Pakistani girl who has raised her voice, loud and clear, for the right of women’s access to education. Her defiant activism openly challenged the narrow minds of th... Read More
Now is Not the Time to Give Up

Now is Not the Time to Give Up

Posted on October 8, 2012October 7, 2012 by Guruamrit Khalsa
This post was originally published by the Interfaith Youth Core on September 13. Ambassador Christopher Stevens’s work was a personal inspiration to me. He was among the most dedicated few of public... Read More
How Hate Gets Counted

How Hate Gets Counted

Posted on October 8, 2012October 7, 2012 by Simran Jeet Singh
Re-published with permission from the authors. Original Source: The New York Times Co-Author: Prabhjot Singh Do American Sikhs count? The horrific shooting at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee on Au... Read More
How Sikhs Handle Hate

How Sikhs Handle Hate

Posted on October 5, 2012October 4, 2012 by Simran Jeet Singh
Re-published with permission from the authors. Original Source: Religion Dispatches. Co-Author: Rajdeep Singh As we reflect on the massacre of Sikh worshippers in Oak Creek, Wisconsin earlier this mon... Read More
Mayor Tonya Hoeffel’s Act Of Intolerance Towards The Sikh Community

Mayor Tonya Hoeffel’s Act Of Intolerance Towards The Sikh Community

Posted on October 4, 2012October 3, 2012 by Simran Jeet Singh
Re-published with permission from the authors. Original Source: Huffington Post. Co-Author: Savneet Singh Less than one month after of the massacre of Sikhs in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Mayor Tonya Hoeff... Read More
Why Jesus’ wife matters to me

Why Jesus’ wife matters to me

Posted on October 4, 2012October 3, 2012 by Victoria Larson
The writing prompt in this week’s digest to State of Formation scholars asked, “Does it matter that Jesus may have had a wife?” I was surprised by the strength of my own response: a gray, hard-... Read More
The Minutemen and the Iceberg

The Minutemen and the Iceberg

Posted on September 28, 2012 by David Fisher
I was walking through downtown Boston in late August, and passed a group of men dressed as Minutemen, as Revolutionary soldiers. This is a common sight during the tourist season, in the birthplace of ... Read More
We Need to Talk About Islam

We Need to Talk About Islam

Posted on September 20, 2012September 20, 2012 by Ted Dedon
Given the recent attacks on American, British, and German embassies by Muslim extremists we are confronted by a serious claim. By reflecting on a Redditor's post about Islam in the midst of a supposed... Read More
Let there be light

Let there be light

Posted on September 16, 2012September 14, 2012 by Michael Ramberg
The disturbing recent news about the bloody protests in the Arab world incited by a video defaming the Prophet Muhammad remind me of a story associated with Rosh Hashanah, which begins on Sunday at su... Read More
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