As one of a tiny number of openly gay imams in the world, Daayiee Abdullah has felt the sting of rebuke from fellow Muslims. No good Muslim can be gay, they say. And traditional schools of Islamic law consider homosexuality a grave sin.
Read More »A year after the Charleston church shooting, what has changed?
In the wake of the shooting at Emanuel, congregations in the AME and other black churches have ratcheted up security — installing cameras and, in some cases, posting armed ushers. Officers sometimes sit in on Bible study, and law enforcement ran a background check on Campbell Chapel’s unfamiliar visitor.
Read More »Standing with Muslims, faith groups buy banners
The banners proclaim it in large, red letters: “Honor God — say no to anti-Muslim bigotry.”
Read More »Obama pleads for tolerance in first visit to US mosque
In times of rising Islamophobia, President Obama made a plea for religious tolerance during his first presidential visit to an American mosque.
Read More »Pew study: More Americans reject religion, but believers firm in faith
Americans as a whole are growing less religious, but those who still consider themselves to belong to a religion are, on average, just as committed to their faiths as they were in the past — in certain respects even more so.
Read More »Many Conservative rabbis open to officiating at intermarriage
A controversial new survey of Conservative rabbis shows that nearly 4 in 10 (38 percent) would officiate at the marriage of a Jew and non-Jew if the Conservative movement lifted its prohibition on these unions.
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