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Speaking at Trevor Project Event Sept. 10, 2013
I'll be speaking on a great panel sponsored by the Trevor Project on LGBT youth acceptance in faith communities. Flyer is attached and details are: Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013 7:30PM Metropolitan Community Church446 West 36th Street (between Dyer Ave and 10th Ave) You can register here: (free) https://www.facebook.com/events/159531827573922/?notif_t=plan_user_joined Download LGBTQ Youth & Faith Invite
City of Knowledge
The recent exchange between Haroon and Reid has got me thinking and churning and preventing me from working on my dissertation!. I was struck by Reids’ quotation of Jesus Christ (PBUH)saying: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 and then reflecting on my own Shia-Ismaili-Muslim religous education and the attribution of the following the following hadith to Prophet Mohammed (PBUH): “I am the city of knowledge and ‘Ali is its gate.” The similarities and implications are very interesting. What is the Prophet implying when he says…
Religious Common Cause
The New York Times has a good article on how Muslims in France are turning to Roman Catholics to fill the educational needs of girls, who are prohibited from entering the public school system if they wear a head scarf. Here is a quote from an employee at a Catholic school explaining that Roman Catholics are more tolerant than secularists: Mr. Chamoux, a slow-moving, jovial man, has been here 20 years and seems to know each student by name. Under a crucifix in his cramped office, he extolled the virtues of Catholic schools. “We practice religious freedom; the public schools…