by Mitch Randall | Apr 8, 2021 | Opinion
Gallup reported a significant decline in membership at American churches, synagogues, and mosques in 2020. In a little over two decades, membership in faith communities dropped from 70% in 1999 to 47% in 2020. There are numerous reasons for this decline, from the rise...
by Imam Imad Enchassi | Jun 18, 2020 | Opinion
I grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, called Sabra and Shatila. My father had fled there at the tender age of 12 when Israel declared independence. Growing up, my father told many stories about his life in Jaffa. He used to show me the deeds to my...
by Imam Imad Enchassi | Apr 23, 2020 | Opinion
Growing up, I was skeptical of other religions. My father was a refugee from Palestine, my mother, also a refugee, from Syria. They met in the camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut, Lebanon – a country deeply divided by religion. Displaced first- and second-generation...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Nov 20, 2018 | Opinion
Mercy. A word, concept, attitude, practice so central to the Christian faith, but it has too often been placed on the shelf and forgotten in our interactions with others. We desire mercy from God for our own shortcomings but we’re less forthcoming when others fail –...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 30, 2018 | Opinion
News of reprehensible things still shocks and unsettles most of us, as it should. I worry, though, that we are careening toward a national normlessness and undergoing a public desensitization, which will result in our merely noting, not decrying and crying over, awful...
