Crazy Brave

It was midnight and tears kept coming. All I could think about is how puffy my eyes would look in the morning. And the other thing I couldn’t get out of my head was the image of my brother Scott in his long khaki pants, sweat-drenched tee-shirt, jacket and ill-fitting shoes wandering around my sister’sContinue reading “Crazy Brave”

Killing Kelly on Moral Monday

What will killing Kelly Gissendaner on Moral Monday mean for America? It will mean that a southern state, this time Georgia, plans to execute by lethal injection a woman who didn’t even kill anybody. For conspiring to kill her husband, Kelly got the death sentence while the actual killer (a man by the name ofContinue reading “Killing Kelly on Moral Monday”

Crazy Terrorists?

Recently I heard a well respected Muslim scholar of Islamic studies speak on the topic of the growing threat of the terrorist group ISIS. Her perspective as an academic who is also an observant religious person helped the audience better understand what it’s like for her to defend her faith daily. She said that whenContinue reading “Crazy Terrorists?”