by Imad Enchassi | Jul 8, 2021 | Opinion
Preaching is difficult in an empty sanctuary. It’s even more difficult to get used to speaking to a screen and looking into a camera instead of faces. Seminary did not have a class on how to minister in a pandemic. Finding ways to connect to our faith communities...
by Adam Soltani | Jun 17, 2021 | Opinion
I was born in 1983, raised in the shadow of the Iranian hostage crisis by an Iranian Shia Muslim father and a white Catholic American mother – unique circumstances in the Kansas town of my early childhood. For much of my life, as an adolescent and a young adult, I...
by Michele Chabin | Oct 6, 2011 | News
JERUSALEM (RNS) Israel’s chief rabbis are among the Jews in Israel and abroad who have strongly condemned an arson attack on a mosque in northern Israel. The rabbis made a solidarity visit to the Israeli Arab village of Tuba Zanghariya, near Galilee, on Monday (Oct....
by Ircel Harrison | Apr 7, 2011 | Opinion
CNN has been broadcasting a “news” special titled “Unwelcome: The Muslims Next Door” recently. With Soledad O’Brien as reporter, the program recounts the negative response on the part of some citizens to the building of a new Islamic...
by Lauren Markoe | Mar 10, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) As Congressional hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims get underway, a political science professor says research shows that affiliation with a mosque increases Muslims’ civic engagement. “The more religious American Muslims happen to be,...
