The Idea Of Church – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast.
Kevin Sessums has a beautiful mediation on the many forms that church can take. He took his godson Kennedy, who recently came out, to the musical Godspell
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I did see Orhan Pamuk last night, and will be seeing Farid Esack tonight (I will post details of that talk soon.) I do, however, have a huge backlog of interesting links I want to dump on you, and they will come in spurts over the next few days.
Book Review: A Muslim American Slave – WSJ.com
Book Review: A Muslim American Slave – WSJ.com. Amid these unpromising circumstances, members of the American Colonization Society—a group that encouraged owners to free their slaves and organized former slaves to colonize what is today Liberia—asked North Carolina slave Omar Ibn Said to write his autobiography. A literate man of West African extraction who had converted from Islam to Christianity, Ibn Said (ca. 1770–1863) created what today is the only extant example of an American slave narrative written in Arabic. His brief work, under the title "A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said," is now published in…
Don’t be nice to Muslims
That’s what non-Muslims are noticing. That’s when you know change is coming. Islam in America, Islam in the US