Fewer came this time. A single, positive coronavirus case discovered that very morning had forced the A2 bloc to initiate a two-week ...

The sun had begun to think about setting when Michael Krick walked into New Lutheran Creation Church on July 21. He took a seat by his fellow congregants. ...

Joseph Mominee thought he would be a scientist; Albert Beltz thought he'd be an artist. Both were right – just not in the way they expected.

What really got to Carol Culberson were the Hallmark commercials.  Again and again they filled her television screen, and again and again they showed her ....

For 15 years, Ruqayya Al-Sharari sold women's clothing out of her home. She was plugging a gap she had found when she converted to Islam nine years prior — ...

Prosnit noted one more key factor driving the increase in religious engagement, the very same one that Masjid Darul Islam has hastened to implement: the switch to online worship. It’s a transition that has been unfolding slowly but steadily for the past decade, adopted by some, ignored by others. Then came the pandemic.

When Papa Koundoul arrived in Miami, Fla., on a F1 Visa from Senegal in the fall of 2014, Muslim dating apps did not yet exist. By the time he completed ...

Rehana Ahmed doesn’t recall meeting many Catholics at her Catholic high school. In fact, she estimates that about 80 percent of the students at Cathedral High School in Lahore, Pakistan, were just like her: proudly practicing Muslims. Right up until she graduated in 1967, she read Scripture in her Bible study classes — ”an easy A,” she recalled — attended church services and, come the holiday season, belted out the Christmas carols she knew by heart. She and her peers always looked forward to the school’s Christmas parties, where Santa Claus would arrive with mountains of presents....

Robin Morris has lived in Toledo for 13 years, but she only opened her store at 2455 W. Sylvania Ave. about 18 months ago. While Power of 3 is only the ...

Washington Muhammad was feeling the heat – not just from the beating of the overhead summer sun of 1995, but from the glares and stares of passing ...

In 2016, the centennial year of the Sisters of St. Francis of Sylvania, some discussions were held about sculpting a memorial statue of their foundress, ...

Patricia Payton was reliving a nightmare. Just three years ago, the Diocese of Paterson had closed Holy Family School, the Catholic elementary school her fourth-grade daughter had been attending since kindergarten. Payton and others fought the closure for a year, launching a fundraiser and reaching out to alumni, to no avail. At the time, she had felt sadness and melancholy. Now, though, she burned with anger.

As the Monday sun dawdled down to its resting place below the horizon, a trickle and then a stream of more than 100 children and adults pooled around ...

In the midst of what amounts to a filmographic assault on Islam, a few sympathetic American filmmakers and television producers have attempted more nuanced and positive depictions of Muslims. Unfortunately, good intentions do not always translate to good results, and the majority of the attempts to respectfully portray Muslims unwittingly perpetuate the same problematic narratives in a different form.

In spite of the American desert that is positive Muslim representation, a small handful of oases have appeared in the years since The Lion of the Desert. Those appearances, though transient and forgotten, were enough to demonstrate that Hollywood’s regurgitation of trite Muslim narratives is not just damaging because it further marginalizes Islamic media representation, but perplexing because it leaves a deep well of narrative potential untapped.

Ismael Gad, 20, was not always sold on the idea of a Muslim fraternity. He was skeptical when he first heard about the existence of Alpha Lambda Mu...

The differential treatment of the Uyghurs and the Hui is linked to this basic logic: the Uyghur have mostly failed to fully assimilate into Chinese culture and thereby represent a potential threat, while the Hui tend to be more politically unengaged and have assimilated into Han culture. As such, they have won unusual tolerance from the Chinese government, which has previously ignored isolated instances of religious fundamentalism amongst the Hui. The Chinese government has attempted to fashion the Hui into exemplars of legitimate Chinese Islamic expression as political counterpoints to the Uyghur separatists. ----------------------Note: This article was cited by University of Chicago professor Robert R. Bianchi in his 2019 book, China and the Islamic World: How the New Silk Road is Transforming Global Politics

Ishrat Mannan ’17 stood by a lonely table, pamphlets in hand. Her disinterested classmates streamed past her, lining up to attend the event of the day: a talk by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, titled “Clash of Civilizations: Islam and the West.” Even though the physical distance that separated them could not have been more than a few feet, Mannan found that she and her fellow Yalies might as well have been in different ideological worlds. In one, Islam was a symbol of peace and a way of life. In the other, it was a foreign relic of a bygone era, interesting to study but not to take seriously. “That huge divide,” recalls Mannan, “just felt really, really disheartening.”

When James W. C. Pennington began attending Yale Divinity School classes in 1834, he was forbidden from speaking.