Tag: social change

• The Sharia as Utopian Discourse?

  

  In the interests of continuing education, I’m taking a class on Sharia and Islamic Law. So far, so fascinating. This explains how I came to read Rumee Ahmed’s Sharia Compliant: A User’s Guide to Hacking Islamic Law (Stanford University Press, 2019), or rather, the introduction and the first chapter of that book. Except that now…

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  May 9, 2019

  Reading Out Loud

  Islam, religion, religious change, religious studies;, Rumee Ahmed, sharia, social change

• Third Sunday in Lent

  

  [“The Humble Questioner,” a sermon for First Unitarian Church, Louisville, Sunday, March 24.] I come from a tradition in which it’s customary to prepare a sermon as a reflection on a text – so here’s one text – it’s a little proverb, actually, that according to tradition was collected by one of the wisest people…

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  March 24, 2019

  Sermons

  communication, Ecclesiastes 1:15, humility, limits, Luke 18:15-17, questions, social change, spirituality, Unitarian Universalist

• Girls’ Day Out

  Today is UN International Day of the Girl. Because the world in which girls are thriving will be the world in which humanity is thriving. If we think of “utopian” as “maybe desirable, but intrinsically impossible,” then the impulse behind the International Day of the Girl is not utopian at all. Because the world in…

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  October 11, 2016

  Thinking Out Loud

  feminism, International Day of the Girl, justice, social change, utopia