Tag: Human Rights
Invoking The Power From Within During the Season of Advent
Patience is not a quality that I demonstrate very well, but I can respect the holy merit of patient waiting. Advent is the season where Christians wait, long, and prepare for the birth of their Messi... Read More
Unreconcilable Beliefs: Humanism, Witches, and Human Rights
Before I went to Ghana I had no idea there were witches there. For me, witchcraft accusations were of historical interest, not a contemporary concern. How wrong I was. Witchcraft accusations are very ... Read More
Immigration and Interfaith
During the first week of December, I traveled to the Arizona-Mexico border with 12 others from Harvard Divinity School as part of a course titled Border Crossings: Immigration in America. We spent fiv... Read More
Religion and Human Rights: An Interview with Father Nabil Haddad
I was excited to have the opportunity recently to sit down for an interview with Father Nabil Haddad, a priest in the Melkite Catholic Church and founder and executive director of the Jordanian Interf... Read More
Has the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill Given Rise to Christian Guarantors of Global Gay Rights?
In 2009, Ugandan lawmaker David Bahati introduced an Anti-Homosexuality Bill that carried the death penalty for “serial offenders” of the “offense of homosexuality.” Under intense internationa... Read More
A Response from an Oxymoron: A Review of Sasha Brookner’s essay “Muhammad’s Mistresses”
In reading Sasha Brookner’s essay, “Muhammad’s Mistresses,” I was initially furious with Brookner’s outlined attack against Muslim feminists. But upon reading further my anger was exchanged ... Read More
Education Under Fire
Article first published as Education Under Fire on Blogcritics. Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “Everyone has the right to education…Technical and professio... Read More
U.S. Actor Rainn Wilson talks about persecution of Bahá’í Students in Iran
The following is a link to a beautiful and moving video in which U.S. actor Rainn Wilson, himself a member of the Baha’i Faith, talks about the persecution of Baha’i students in Iran and t... Read More