In May 2017 a man on a Portland train harassed and yelled anti-Muslim slurs at two young women, one of whom was wearing a hijab. As the incident escalated, the...
Interfaith
What is the word for the emotion you experience when someone you have admired deeply behaves in a manner that is the crushing inverse of what you had come to...
While living at a monastery in India, Brahmachari Vrajvihari Sharan took turns cooking meals for 150 people. So when he became a chaplain at Georgetown this...
“From ancient times down to the present, there is found among various peoples a certain perception of that hidden power which hovers over the course of things...
A coworker urged me into watching the new television series, American Gods, based off the Neil Gaiman novel by the same title. I was skeptical at first, and...
Jafar Mahallati started his professional career as Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.), where he had an instrumental role in ending the Iran-Iraq...
I attended evening prayer for the first time at a monastery in upstate New York. I was immediately drawn to it because the service correlates perfectly with...
When I had heard that a Christian pastor in Florida was planning to burn the Quran as an evil book, I shuddered. My friend Abdul recites the Quran and finds...
On a mild December evening in 2015, a red pickup truck inched past an Islamic center in Philadelphia, just as the city was giving way to darkness. On its...
On October 31, 2016, the same day Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the church door in 1517, the Lutheran World Federation began a yearlong commemoration...
