(Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on EthicsDaily.com. The article and photo are used with permission. Rob Sellers is emeritus professor of theology and missions at Logsdon Seminary and chair of the Parliament of the World’s Religions.) By ROB SELLERS Sugar and spice, thunder and lightning, picnics and ants, ocean and waves, washers and dryers, children and laughter, Baptists and Muslims. If you
Read moreAn evening at the Paramount Theater, with a guest speaker, dramatic presentation, and special music, will open the new Miracle of Israel Exhibit at the Discovery Center. The Paramount event will begin at 7 p.m. May 14. The following day, the new exhibit, with its own building, will open to the public at the Discovery Center, located at South Eighth
Read moreBy Loretta Fulton “Let me tell you a story.” It’s the way Eboo Patel beings a speech. And, it’s the perfect beginning for a talk by Patel, a gifted storyteller. He proved that the evening of Oct. 11 when he presented a talk at McMurry University that was attended by members of the Abilene Interfaith Council and other Abilene residents.
Read moreBy Loretta Fulton When a group of Highland Church of Christ members arrived at the Islamic Center of the South Plains in Lubbock last year, they were greeted with a strange message from the imam–or at least it sounded strange until the imam explained. “You guys are on your own jihad,” Imam Samer Altabaa said as way of greeting. That
Read moreBy Loretta Fulton At precisely 8:40 p.m., Anas and Hannah Daghmoumi sat down at a small serving table to break the Ramadan fast with a guest in their home. Two children, ages 3 and a half and 5, had their own “break-fast” at the kitchen table. The adults enjoyed dates shipped from California, clustered nuts, hot tea, and Hannah’s homemade
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