City’s library looking at Islam
Source: The Sun Chronicle ATTLEBORO In an effort to bridge the faiths of Muslims and others, the Quran, Islam’s holy book, is being displayed at Attleboro Public Library. A major […]
Exclusive: Wheaton College Provost Called Suspended Professor’s Muslim Comments ‘Innocuous’
Source: Time Faculty speak out to defend teacher The Wheaton College provost overseeing an expulsion trial against a tenured professor who said Christians and Muslims worship the same God wrote […]
Trump urged to apologise to Muslim protester ejected from rally
Source: BBC The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has urged Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to apologise to a Muslim protester ejected from one of his rallies. CAIR said Rose […]
Love Your Neighbor – But Don’t Quite Love Your Muslim Neighbor
Source: The Huffington Post An act of interfaith outreach and human solidarity took place in the Chicago suburbs, by one Dr. Larycia Hawkins, a Professor at Wheaton College, a Evangelical […]
Barack Obama slams gun lobby ‘fiction’ and conspiracy theories
Source: The Guardian Barack Obama tore into the nation’s largest gun lobby on Thursday as he sought support for his actions on gun control, accusing the National Rifle Association of […]
California’s Faith-Based Pregnancy Centers Must Now Inform Women About Abortion Options
Source: Huffington Post SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The Ninth Circuit on Thursday refused to block a new California law that requires pregnancy care centers to notify patients about state-funded contraception and abortion services. Three faith-based pregnancy care centers sued the state in October, claiming the Reproductive FACT (Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive […]
Why don’t black and white Americans live together?
Source: BBC By Rajini Vaidyanathan Legal segregation in the US may have ended more than 50 years ago. But in many parts of the country, Americans of different races aren’t […]
Muslims in Queens Welcome Shift in Scrutiny to Police
Source: The New York Times Ahmad Alsalkhadi, an immigrant from Jordan, has never had a run-in with the police, but he works in a section of Astoria, Queens, that has […]
NYC settles lawsuits over Muslim surveillance by police
Source: Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department will tighten safeguards against illegal surveillance of Muslims in secret investigations of terror threats and install a civilian […]
Video series: Slavery in America: The Roots
Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured […]
What Death Taught Me
Katie Dreyer Become a fanWriter, traveler, researcher Posted: 01/07/2016 Joan Didion said grief is never how you expect it will be. When I used to think of my mother dying, in the abstract, vague way people do, I imagined myself collapsing in a heap, burying myself in my bed for […]
Is God Still Speaking?
Posted: 01/07/2016 Susan M. Shaw Become a fanProfessor of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Director of the School of Language, Culture, & Society at Oregon State University How narrowly should a Christian college set the parameters for theological fidelity for its faculty? While this question is one that often […]
The Internet Is Killing Religion (and Science, Too)
Source: Huffington Post By Paul Wallace; Minister, physics professor The Internet is a killer: Adam Conover from Adam Ruins Everything *** It is true. The Internet is killing religion not because it exposes people to new ideas, and not because it tends to draw out everyone’s inner troll, and not because […]
A United States Without Muslims Has Never Existed
Source: Huffington Post By Carla Gardina Pestana; historian, author, and college professor The idea that all Muslims should be blocked from entering the U.S. plays well with people who think adherents […]
Rep. Joe Courtney Will Bring Muslim-American Physician from Norwich to the State of the Union Speech
Source: Hartford Courant U.S Rep. Joe Courtney has invited Dr. Mohammed Qureshi of Marlborough, a Norwich primary care physician and the president of a mosque that was the target of an anti-Islamic attack, to be his guest for President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address to Congress. “Dr. […]
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton on Running and Governing as a Woman
Source: Time By Jay Newton-Small ‘There still is a double standard, there’s no doubt about that.’ I sat down with Hillary Clinton in October for an exclusive interview for my book, […]
Why Americans Are More Afraid Than They Used to Be
Source: Time What Roosevelt got wrong 75 years ago It was 75 years ago, on Jan. 6, 1941, that President Franklin Roosevelt stood to deliver the State of the Union […]
FBI seeks peaceful end to occupation at Oregon wildlife refuge
By Reuters – Jan 05,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A US flag covers a sign at the entrance of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, on Sunday (Reuters photo) PRINCETON, Oregon — Federal law enforcement officials on Monday sought to bring a peaceful end to the weekend occupation of […]
Wheaton Professor May Be Fired for Pro-Islam Stance
Source: The New York Times A college professor in Illinois who is at risk of being fired for her remarks on Islam and Christianity spoke out on Wednesday, saying she […]
Merry Christmas to the 300 million Orthodox Christian brothers and sisters; celebrating today
Epigraph: Muhammad, thou shalt assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are savants […]