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Art for Peace: An Interview with Artist Mary Button

By John Shorb

…ed up in their faith. Earlier in the summit, the youth drew these really amazing life maps where they drew out these circuitous paths dotted with people and churches and told these amazing stories about how they came to be at the peace summit. And when we sat down to write out messages for our peace march, the messages they wrote overwhelming were about God’s love. So when I came back to the U.S. and I began to make these paintings, I wanted to be…

Gay-Hating Church Burns “Idols”: A Report

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…he untold civilian deaths (with estimates heading into the hundreds of thousands) associated with US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the events that could doom relations between the Muslim world and America. Symbolic acts do matter, but the ones performed by sanctioned US representatives—the unnamed soldier who used the Qur’an for target practice or Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin’s 2003 comment that the Christian God is “real” while his Muslim opponen…

Palin Goes ‘Hopey-Changey,’ But Don’t Call it Political

By Julie Ingersoll

…s. Concluding the Q&A Ortiz asked: “If Roe v. Wade were overturned and the numbers of abortions drastically reduced, how should we provide support for those children?” Doc Renuart suggested adoption while Palin rambled, pointing out that overturning Roe v. Wade would not immediately end abortion and that a political fight in every state would still be necessary—without a bit of cognitive dissonance concerning her “states’ rights views.” In the end…

Prophet Muhammad

By Amina Wadud

…e soundtrack from one I advised on a few years ago. It has the lovely four-minute prayer for waking). Anyway, I want to make a shift in how we might look at this important historical figure, and specifically about teachers, leaders, and guides. I told you yesterday that part of the inspiration for making this entry about the Prophet Muhammad (saw) was through the reminders my own spiritual teacher has been making during our retreat. Well, there’s…

The 99 Names: Allah is not
He or She

By Amina Wadud

…bic, the sun is feminine and the moon is masculine. Think about that for a minute. We tend to think in opposite gender terms about the sun and the moon in English. But it is not literal; it’s a metaphor. It’s true the Qur’an only uses the Arabic masculine (singular) pronoun and not the feminine. But that’s not literal either. You know how I know? the Qur’an uses the first-person singular, ‘I’ and ‘Me’ for Allah, and also uses the first-person plur…

Iftar: Breaking Fast

By Amina Wadud

…?” So last night, I had a perfect balance—at least for me, anyway. All of my California family was there (even if some of them didn’t partake of the chicken) along with the company of a friend whom I am so happy to know, who helps me keep sane in an insane world and I just want to give a shout out to my home boy! Thank you and your son for your company, and give my love to Katherine whom I missed, ’cause she chose to stay in Turkey this time aroun…

I’tikaf: Sacred Solitude

By Amina Wadud

…r the sacred month is over. This practice has been going on for over a thousand years. It has gone on all over the planet. It has also, always been for men only. It’s that gender bias in public ritual thing again. Well, to be sure, there are some practical difficulties to making it inclusive of women. Logistically, “living” in the mosque—that is, eating drinking, bathing, and sleeping—is life without privacy. The mosque is a public place after all…

Mercy, Justice, and the Telephone Company

By Daniel Schultz

…se it’s going to serve certain interests and not others (more on that in a minute). What’s a bit more interesting is what I think Cavanaugh would have to say about the Benedictines’ response to their sister’s death: it is predicated on a radically different assumption of common identity that resists the national narrative laid out by the anti-immigrant activists. If we are connected primarily by being children of God, not by national identity, it…

CPAC 2017: Hypocrites on Parade

By Sunnivie Brydum

…cts. Paraphrasing the President’s remarks earlier this month, Clarke said: Sanctuary cities are havens for criminal activity. Sanctuary cities provide cover, if you will, for criminal illegal immigrants to continue to prey on, not only law-abiding people, but also illegal immigrants in this country. And here’s why they’re able to do that with impunity. Because, if you are a criminal illegal alien, and you rape, rob, whatever, another illegal alien…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hts abuses can lead to destabilization and conflict.” Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Click HERE to take our 2-minute reader survey. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, reportedly told Putin at a meeting last week that the reports are untrue. Elena Milashina, the reporter who exposed the allegations reported that the story has generated the biggest reaction they ever seen in years of covering Chechnya,…