America: Where No One Shall Make Us Afraid

04.23.2023 __As Ramadan was coming to a close this week I found myself thinking of people who have touched my Continue reading →

Peterborough UU Sermon: We Inform Each Other

04.09.2023 Sermon delivered April 2, 2023 at the Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church, Peterborough NH____________________________________________________________________________________ Early in the 13th century, during Continue reading →

We are Commanded to Speak Against Injustice

03.26.2023 __“Listen!” we are commanded. “I am standing at the door, knocking; if you hear my voice and open the Continue reading →

1444 Hijri: A Ramadan Letter to My Friends

03.19.2023 Ramadan begins this week. At sunset on Wednesday, March 22, 2023 – the month of Ramadan in the Islamic Continue reading →

Let There Be None to Make Us Afraid

05.01.2022 __ This past week, as the final days of Ramadan approached, I chose not to devote energy (and perhaps Continue reading →

Holy Week: My Poached Eggs are Egyptian

04.17.2022 __ While most of the Arab world uses the Arabic word for bread, khibz, in Egypt the word for Continue reading →

Enes Kanter Freedom: Boston Celtic. Citizen. Critic.

12.12.2021 __I grew up with Boston Celtics basketball, listening (sometimes under bed covers so my parents couldn’t hear I was Continue reading →

New Hampshire Is Not Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood

04.25.2021 ________________________________________ I am so tired of white supremacists and their sympathizers trying to appropriate the words of Dr. Martin Continue reading →