Barack Obama has selected Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church to deliver the invocation at his inauguration ceremony in January. Not everyone is happy. The furor from LGBT activists (many of whom supported Barack Obama) is especially understandable. Only a few hours after the announcement, the Human Rights Campaign’s Joe Solmonese had released a letter [...]
Posts Tagged ‘inter faith’
Voting Images
November 4th, 2008
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From the Huffington Post, Amazing Voting Images. I’ve included a few in particular because I find them particularly important for America: Technorati Tags: islam, election, america, obama
Interfaith Coalitions and Revolution
October 29th, 2008
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I was sitting there in my “Introduction to the Middle East and Islamic Politics” course today, listening to Dr. Hashemi lecture about the relationship between authoritarian states and their effect on political expression. He did this through a case study of Iran, explaining the ways in which politicized Islam grew to be a legitimate outlet [...]
Religion and Politics – A Long Post
October 24th, 2008
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New post up at the DU Interfaith Student Alliance blog: http://du-interfaith.blogspot.com/
Choosing “The American Dream”
October 12th, 2008
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The Interfaith Youth Core continues to do good work. I’ve posted at the Bridge-Builders NING site to this effect: http://bridge-builders.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2315767:BlogPost:3621
Small Town America, Big Town America
October 2nd, 2008
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I grew up in a small town. The owners of a local restaurant (the only one in town) were Kosovars from Kosovo. This was all I ever really knew about them. When they moved away, the restaurant was taken over by…another Kosovar family. It seemed to be a trend. The food still tasted the same. [...]
