Category: United States
Charleston: #BlackLivesMatter This Ramadan
I logged onto Facebook Tuesday night, about to post a “Ramadan Mubarak!” wish for all my Muslim friends. And then, scrolling down my news feed, I saw it—the news that a white man had entered a b... Read More
Where No One Is Getting Scooped: Media Neglect of Grassroots Organizations in the Coverage of International Events
I have a challenge for you. Name all of the relief, humanitarian, or justice-oriented NGOs that you can. Could you name a few? Good! How many of you thought of OXFAM, UNICEF, Red Cross, United Way, Am... Read More
Privilege, Peace, and What South African Violence Has to Say to the World
Recently, a colleague of mine related the story of how she posed this interesting question to her college students: “Can peace exist when poverty remains?” As the facilitator of a project the stud... Read More
South Carolina, #BlackLivesMatter, and the Bible
I was born and raised in South Carolina. I love my home state; there are so many genuine, kind, wonderful people there who I care about deeply. But to be honest, most of the time when I see South Car... Read More
Atheist Diversity: Don’t Define Me By What I’m Not
Atheists are having a big week in the news. Data analysts reported that the atheist subreddit is the third most toxic group on Reddit, coming in behind a men’s rights group and followers of a ra... Read More
Religious Freedom?
Last Monday, I spent the first part of my day at the Indiana State House. Hoosiers gathered both in support and in opposition to Senate Bill 101, also known as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. S... Read More
Celebrating Women’s Interfaith History
March is women’s history month and usually that means a celebration of women from a national or cultural perspective. In the United States that implies celebrating American women of independence... Read More
White Noise: Why we need to stop talking about the SAE video
Dialogue is difficult, but never dangerous. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for all of the ways we exercise our freedom of speech. In the two weeks since the SAE video was revealed, we have exp... Read More