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  / Imam Amr Dabour says people have become more involved in the SALAM Islamic Center during the pandemic. // CapRadio, Andrew Nixon When Sacramento State University classes went online because of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, 19 year-old Nicole Oneto moved back in with her parents about an hour south of Fresno, Calif. "I was brought back into this bubble again," says Oneto about feeling isolated in her rural hometown of Woodlake. She lives on 10 acres and doesnt share some of the wo...

Andrew Nixon/CapRadio toggle caption Andrew Nixon/CapRadio Imam Amr Dabour says people have become more involved in the SALAM Islamic Center during the pandemic. Andrew Nixon/CapRadio When Sacramento State University classes went online because of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, 19 year-old Nicole Oneto moved back in with her parents about an hour south of Fresno, Calif. "I was brought back into this bubble again," says Oneto about feeling isolated in h...

Dan Hornsby is a young writer to watch. Via Negativa is this 32-year-old author’s debut novel, a relevant, funny, earnest, eloquent book that is soaked in theology. I spoke to him recently about the novel, but also about religion, spirituality, vocation and more. Via Negativa is the story of a Roman Catholic priest who has been ousted from his parish in Indiana. The story begins on the interstate: “Somebody hit a coyote and I pulled over to the shoulder to take a look at it.” Think Ameri...

Luther College hosts "Religion in U.S. Diplomacy: From Bush to Biden" Search: April 1, 2021 At 7 p.m. Thursday, April 15 Luther College will host Dr. Shaun Casey as he presents "Religion in U.S. Diplomacy: From Bush to Biden." The virtual lecture will examine the strengths and weaknesses of recent U.S. administrations attempts to incorporate religion into diplomacy. Viewing information can be found at luther.edu/events. Casey led the State Department’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs un...

Column: Pride in the Pews: After Harvard Divinity School, a young Chicagoan comes home to try to change the Black Church’s attitudes toward LGBTQ people Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune © Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS Steven Williams III, left, and Don Abram attend an online Pride in the Pews advisory meeting. CHICAGO – Don Abram calls himself a queer church boy. Back when he really was a boy — a shy child, small for his age — he didn’t use the w...

Three families who lost a loved one look back at a year of isolation Betty Breunig took a year off after her first two years at Radcliffe College and taught English in Japan, which was still under American occupation. Courtesy photos Barbara and Fay Burnham in a 2002 photograph. The couple was married since 1954. Juanita and John Claflin in an undated photograph. Married since 1956, the couple died within one week of each other earlier this year. Published: 3/9/2021 4:35:39 PM Tammy Vaughan ...

Three families who lost a loved one look back at a year of isolation Betty Breunig took a year off after her first two years at Radcliffe College and taught English in Japan, which was still under American occupation. (Family photograph) Barbara and Fay Burnham in a 2002 photograph -- the couple had been married since 1954. (Family photograph) Juanita and John Claflin in an undated photograph. Married since 1956, the couple died within one week of each other earlier this year. (Family photogra...

Jasmine Beach-Ferrara Donated photo Some people will say a gay woman who’s a Christian minister just can’t get elected in the South. Those are the very first words spoken by Democrat Jasmine Beach-Ferrara in a launch video for her 2022 congressional campaign. Although she’s already proved the skeptics wrong – Beach-Ferrara is currently serving her second term as a Buncombe County Commissioner – shes looking to do it again in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District. “I�...

George Yancy George Yancy: Here in the West, where a few monotheistic religions dominate the culture, knowledge and understanding of Indigenous African religious practices is rare. Is Yoruba monotheistic or polytheistic? Or is it something else entirely? Jacob Kehinde Olupona: Yoruba religion manifests elements of both. It differs from many world religions that define their cosmology primarily in theistic terms. Yoruba religion focuses on the lived religious experience of the people rather than...

Privacy is a luxury in Cory Doctorow’s Attack Surface , a political technothriller that follows the questionable choices of former spy, gov­ernment operative, and traitor, Masha Maximow, as she builds cyberweapons for authoritarian govern­ments, greedy cyber firms, and progressive activists alike. Taking place a few years after the events of Little Brother and Homeland , this standalone novel yanks readers through Masha’s turbulent life in a series of alternating flashbacks and present...