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Action as Prayer: Lessons from Oceti Sakowin

Jonathan Brenneman
April 3, 2017

The prayer practices at Oceti Sakowin camp offered a holistic and positive relationship between prayer and action, a relationship not often found between prayer and action within Christianity.

Loss, Lament and Prophetic Modernities

Series: Prophecy Without Contempt

M. Christian Green
August 30, 2016August 15, 2019

Can prophetic indictment balance lamentation with justice, irony with hope? Read the full article »

Foundations for Democracy in Islamic Traditions

Series: Rome 2016

Armina Omerika
August 3, 2016August 14, 2019

The “Islamic state” is a construct of modernity, of Muslim intellectuals trying to cope with modernity, secularization, and colonialism.

Reflections on Human Personhood: An Islamic Perspective

Abdulaziz Sachedina
August 21, 2013August 9, 2019

Modernity has played havoc in appraising human personhood. Science and technology are progressing unabatedly to improve the quality of human life, and yet the end result unwittingly points to further confusion in appreciating the natural and spiritual dimensions of the human person.

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Action as Prayer: Lessons from Oceti Sakowin

Loss, Lament and Prophetic Modernities

Foundations for Democracy in Islamic Traditions

Reflections on Human Personhood: An Islamic Perspective