By Pei-Yu Lin/ El Inde Gardenia Moffett walked onto the raised platform covered in gray carpet at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Sonoita last February. She took the microphone and welcomed the congregation. Sophia Bergh, 17, the training leader for youth in the church, stood beside her. Recorded music started playing and they began to sing….
PHOENIX — This week saw a host of memorials, resolutions, and other bills going through the Senate and House. While lofty-sounding and sometimes addressing big international issues, these are merely suggestions or tokens of goodwill. Outside of that, the Capitol was rocked by a (minor) scandal, as prominent lobbyist Cathi Herrod of the Center for Arizona…
Nahid K. grew up in Iran, where 90 percent of the population is Muslim. Her parents, however, were not very religious. When she was 25, Nahid converted from Muslim to Catholicism, something that is very rare, especially because the Islamic law condemns conversion. According to Dr. Konden Smith, a lecturer of religious studies at…
Traducido por Javier Aispuro. Una vez al mes, una sala de la biblioteca de Tucson se llena de personas que tienen mucho, mucho, mucho miedo. De sus vecinos. Su miedo colectivo no tiene un rostro específico, pero tiene una fe específica. El Islam, y los elementos radicales supuestamente “infiltrados” en América constituyen una amenaza existencial…
Once a month, a Tucson library room fills with people who are very, very, very afraid. Of their neighbors. Their collective fear doesn’t have a specific face, but has a specific faith. Islam, and the radical elements allegedly “infiltrating” America, constitute an existential threat to the (mostly elderly) men and women who meet in this…
