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March 11, 2022 Demosthenes

Empathy in an Outrageous World

Or… I ain’t problematic, I have a [group name] friend!! I’ve been thinking a lot lately about in-person exposure to a particular race, religion,

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June 23, 2015 Locke

Catholic Muslims: The Pope and the Qur’an

Pope Francis released an encyclical today discussing the environment and humanity’s responsibility to be good shepherds of it. Quoth Rod Dreher: What Francis has

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April 15, 2015 Demosthenes

Muslim or Black in America

I think, if there’s one thing I will like about President Obama’s term coming to an end, it is that perhaps the extreme right-wing

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March 23, 2015 Demosthenes

Prophet human

Or… God Uppercase I just started reading Rashed Hasan’s new treatise, Removing the Middleman: Deciphering Faith Without Ritual. The book is intended to be

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Vanishing Grace by Philip Yancey
March 16, 2015 Demosthenes

Islam as a Majority, Christianity as a Minority

An interesting quote from Philip Yancey’s Vanishing Grace: A young Muslim man recently told Yancey, “I have read the entire Koran and can find

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Muslim American Flag by Christopher Batchelder, May 2012
March 12, 2015 Locke

American(ized) #Islam

Culture and religion, no matter how universal we may want to view the latter’s principles, are inexorably tied. Islam strives to be a religion

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March 4, 2015 Demosthenes

Where Have All the Lone Star Liberals Gone?

Prajwal Kulkarni makes an interesting statement about diversity in an Medium.com essay entitled, “Who Speaks for the Black Pentacostal”: Whatever their differences, they [Christians]

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February 24, 2015 Demosthenes

From Prayer to Fasting to Kickoff to Happy Hour

This morning, I performed wu’du (ritual cleansing before prayer) for the first time in years. I don’t like wu’du much, it’s a little too

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January 7, 2015 Demosthenes

Satire, Charlie Hebdo and the Mindset of (some) Muslims

ou… la liberté d’expression est non négociable. The offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper which has attracted controversy for lampooning Islam and

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February 24, 2014 Demosthenes

Karma’s Not a Bitch, Your Dogmas Are…

Every once in a while, I like to put on Chris Rock’s comedy special Bigger & Blacker. If you haven’t seen it, do so.

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