Religion Dispatches
…rayer afterward. And so there is—all five prayers have a time range of at least an hour and a half, so one could be said to have prayed “in the prayer time” according to the Hadith. Praying immediately when the adhan is called or at the start of each prayer time is a plus, but not a mandate. So, I went with the majority. Boy was I sorry. After the days empty stomach it was a heavy burden to go straight into all those movements following the large…
Read More…house, while not living alone. I find it difficult. So when I came to the east coast, I got to enjoy fasting, suhur, prayer and iftar with the people I love the most on the planet: my own family. I remember posting on Twitter just how awesome it was to have that combination: my own eat, pray, love in the month of fasting, right here in America. I confess, I was so busy enjoying family that I let my tarawih and Qur’an reading slip… Now, I am here…
Read More…y house while not living alone. I find it difficult. So when I came to the East coast, I got to enjoy fasting, suhur, prayer, and iftar with the people I love the most on the planet: my own family. I remember posting on Twitter just how awesome it was to have that combination: my own eat, pray, love in the month of fasting, right here in America. I confess, I was so busy enjoying family that I let my tarawih and Qur’an reading slip… Now, I am here…
Read More…his eyes set on a 5-acre parcel of land that lay in dairy country 30 miles east of Los Angeles. His mission — to obtain city and county approval for a new mosque in Chino. Week after week, public hearing after public hearing — my father would round up the family in the station wagon and rehearse his “talking points” for the public during the long drives up north. I remember sitting by his side in the school auditoriums as he prepared to take the p…
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…an outright poisonous influence at worst. During the Second World War, at least one psychiatrist worried that radio soaps were undermining the war morale, distracting women with addictive stories that promoted destructive values. To label something a “soap opera” today still implies that what you are describing involves immature behavior, improbable plot twists, and/or unseemly sexual liaisons. Soap opera fans themselves have consistently been cha…
Read More…d as Americans in favor of religious freedom, including a 93-year-old Northeast Florida civil rights icon, who planned to go and make a citizen’s arrest. But several other callers demonstrated the depth of anti-Muslim hostility. One argued that Islam is inherently violent comparing responses to the planned Qur’an burning in Afghanistan to the responses of American Christians to desecration of their sacred symbols, completely ignoring the distinctl…
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…a with the goal of bringing together close to 200 young people from across East Africa to talk about the post-election violence that broke out after the 2007 Kenyan elections. Button found inspiration and challenge when she stepped off the plane in Kenya, and she came back to create a series on her experience there. JS: How did your faith or the faith of other people play a role in this series? MB: During The Peace Summit, interfaith dialog was a…
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…orums for devout LDS whose spouses have rejected LDS belief, such as Faces East. The Great Calling of Homemaking Furthermore, these attitudes about marriage also explain the existence of Mormon feminist blogs like Exponent II, Zelophehad’s Daughters, or the more well-established Feminist Mormon Housewives, which receives in the neighborhood of a million hits a month. Given that young Mormon women are encouraged to get educations, get married, and…
Read More…te in 1870. And Mormon women in the late nineteenth century were sent back east to train as medical doctors, encouraged by Brigham Young himself, who said in 1869: We believe that women are useful, not only to sweep houses, wash dishes, make beds and raise babies, but they should stand behind the counter, study law or physic, or become good bookkeepers and be able to do the business in any counting house, and all this to enlarge their sphere of us…
Read More…and we’re left holding the bag,” said Mr. Cordray, whose office overlooks East Broad. “It’s important for us to show we’ll go after a company that does wrong.” Mr. Cordray in two years in office has demonstrated a willingness to sue early and often, filing lawsuits against global financial houses, rating agencies, subprime lenders and foreclosure scammers. He has wrested about $2 billion so far, a string of gilded pelts: a $475 million Merrill Ly…
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