Source: By BLOOMBERG January 5, 2018 Donald Trump’s unusual bid to muzzle his one-time top strategist is a flimsy legal gambit that could bring deeper complications for the president if he […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla An Arkansas mosque has paid off the remaining court fines of a man who helped vandalize their sacred space ― doing its part to make sure he […]
Source: Huffington post By Carol Kuruvilla A public elementary school in Kansas has agreed to end its yearly tradition of facilitating a Bible giveaway on school grounds. In the […]
Source: Time By JAMIE DUCHARME Just two days after President Donald Trump caused a frenzy by tweeting that he has a “bigger and more powerful” nuclear button than North Korean leader Kim Jong […]
Source: BBC News The Trump administration says it is cutting almost all security aid to Pakistan until it deals with terrorist networks operating on its soil. But will the cuts […]
Mustafa Akyol (born 1972) is a Turkish writer and journalist. He is the author of Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty, long-listed in 2012 for the Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award […]
Source : Religion News Service By Kimberly Winston | January 2, 2018 (RNS) — The Lancaster Mennonite Conference, the largest group of Mennonite congregations in the U.S., has officially separated from the broader Mennonite […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Religion Reporter, HuffPost “Anyone … can see that the purpose of this is to promote Christianity,” said a lawyer for the legal branch of […]
Source: The Boston Globe By Christopher Wallenberg Rohina Malik was attending a friend’s wedding some 15 years ago when the realities of post-9/11 America rocked her world. A Chicago-based theater […]
Source: BBC News By Miriam Quick Unlock your potential. Turbocharge your productivity. Transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. These are just some of the bombastic guarantees of self-help book titles, […]
Source: The Guardian BY Ed Pilkington in New York Twenty-three bills have been introduced in 18 state legislatures this year to ban the practice of Islamic law – critics say the aim is to spread fear about Muslims People demonstrate against allowing an Islamic community center near Ground Zero at a rally […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY BESHEER MOHAMED Muslims at a 2017 prayer service celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. (John Moore/Getty Images) Recent political debates over […]
Source: BBC News A debate continues to rage over police use of force, with officers seeing incidents very differently to civilians. What happens when the two sides are forced to […]
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump has boasted that his nuclear button is “much bigger” and “more powerful” than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s. Mr Trump’s tweet is the latest contribution to an increasingly personalised feud between the nuclear-armed leaders. Mr Kim threatened earlier this week that his nuclear […]
Source: First Things by Mary Eberstadt January 2018 Begin with a sobering fact. During the past ten years, some of the sharpest observers of our time have come to believe that […]
The Atlantic: Taz Ahmed is 38, single, Muslim, and Bengali. She describes herself as spiritual, but not particularly religious. When she was growing up, her immigrant parents hoped she would marry an I.T. worker they found for her in Oklahoma. “I’m like, ‘I don’t even know who this person is, […]
Source: Time By BRIAN MELLEY, TERENCE CHEA / AP (OAKLAND, Calif.) — It wasn’t exactly reefer madness Monday as California launched the first legal retail sales of marijuana, but those who […]
Source: BBC News More than 300 actresses, writers and directors have launched a project to help fight sexual harassment in the film industry and other workplaces. The initiative, which is […]
Source: The Guardian By Ed Pilkington in New York Twenty-three bills have been introduced in 18 state legislatures this year to ban the practice of Islamic law – critics say the aim […]
Source: Pew Research Center Abigail Geiger is an associate digital producer and writer for Pew Research Center. Pew Research Center studies a wide array of topics both in the U.S. […]