Religion
Chaplain ministers to fire responders and victims
By Adrie Quinn By Adrie Quinn For the Rev. Pamela Holmes-Saxton, few workdays are the same. A morning may begin, as it did recently, with a plaque dedication honoring a fallen firefighter. From there, she might make hospital visits to injured first responders or stop by firehouses and emergency medical service stations to counsel those […]
Table talk on peace, Palestine, Israel
By Mia Baghout From a distance, an onlooker watched the man approach and study the poster board-sized sign. “I’m Palestinian. Ask me anything,” it read. What the man said in response, said Liliana, was this: Get up. I want to sit in your chairs, change places with you. Liliana and Romeo – who, fearing for […]
Self-styled, self-defined Muslim women
By Liyana Illyas Djenabou Diallo’s loose blue jeans were paired with a long-sleeve, flowy white shirt and a cornflower blue hijab. Mariam Sayeed wore her cream-colored, three-quarter-length sleeved T-shirt with blue jeans and a periwinkle colored hijab. Both are Muslim, dressed to reflect their religious beliefs that women should be more covered up in public, […]