Category: United States
Growing Up White
It’s funny how racial identity works. Especially whiteness. Especially when you’re taught, implicitly and overwhelmingly, that white is the norm. It’s funny how it’s not until you’re older... Read More
From Church Programs to Political Action: A Critical Challenge to Christians’ Selective Refrain from Social Movements
Like most single mothers, I could probably spend a lifetime writing books about the unique blessing and difficulty of parenting without a spouse. In 2007, I learned that receiving an educational loan ... Read More
Racism is an Honest Mistake
I want to tell you what I mean when I say that racism is an honest mistake, but first I want to be clear about some assumptions I’m making. The first is that I’m contributing to a conversation amo... Read More
Dear Internet Active Peeps – Please Stop Using #YallQaeda and #YeeHawd
You Are Doing Theonormative Harm For those unfamiliar with the situation underway in eastern Oregon, I recommend this piece, as I will be citing it later. And, before I begin, allow me to reflexive... Read More
An Open Letter to NH Governor Maggie Hassan
Dear Governor Hassan, In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris and your subsequent call to halt the process of allowing Syrian refugees to cross into our country, I write to ask for your compassi... Read More
Our Right To Worship Safely
“Whosoever sees an evil, then let him change it with his hand. If he is not able, then with his tongue. And if he is not able to do that, then with his heart and that is the weakest of belief.” ~ ... Read More
Religion in the Academy and in the Public
As naive as it may sound, I thought that I could learn more about Islamic Studies and history at university than at “Saturday” school on the weekends while at the mosque. The mosque lessons about ... Read More
Statues Will Never Be Enough
It was the summer of 2012. I was nineteen years old, working as an intern in Washington, DC—that swamp of politics, and humidity, and the slow-moving Potomac. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial ha... Read More