Post 9/11: Today, I Stand With the Promise of America

09.15.2019 ________________________________________ On 9/11 I was transformed. Until that date I had quietly, and comfortably, lived as an American – Continue reading →

Ismail Ajjawi: A Test of America’s Greatness

09.01.2019 ________________________________________ The bride was Hindu. The bridegroom was Muslim. The celebrant was an ordained Itinerant Elder in the African Continue reading →

Sitti. Sitto. Grandmothers: Compasses That Point to Justice, Love, Resistance

08.25.2019 ________________________________________ “My grandmother lives on the other side of the earth,” Naomi Shihab Nye writes in Sitti’s Secrets. “She Continue reading →

“Mourning for Whiteness:” Listening to the Prophets

08.11.2019 ________________________________________ I remember listening, on November 11th, three days after the 2016 presidential election, to Professor – and Prophet Continue reading →

Eid al-Adha: Tehran to Khartoum, Kashmir to Timbuktu

08.04.2019 ________________________________________ At sunset on Saturday, August 10, most of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims will mark the end of Continue reading →

Robert Mueller and ‘The Appalling Silence of the Good People’

07.28.2019 ________________________________________ In our quest for a more perfect union we often deceive ourselves into believing that America can rise Continue reading →

Gov. Sununu: ‘Punching Down’ is Easy

07.26.2019 ________________________________________ In 1996, NEW Hampshire’s John E. Sununu was elected the first Palestinian-American in Congress, preceding both Rep. Justin Continue reading →

Complicit with Trump: Complicit with Racism.

07.20.2019 ________________________________________ First, I was angry – really angry. Then, I was sad – really sad. Today, after watching President Continue reading →