Tag: secularism

  • The Sherman Jackson Reader: Literalism Part 5

    We continue with The Sherman Jackson Reader, a class taught on Saturdays by Imam Marc Manley at Middle Ground after Fajr prayer. “I think that there’s this fine line between accepting that there are standards, but standards don’t come at the price of erasing human experience” — Imam Marc Manley Link to the article here. Continue reading

  • The Importance of Establishing Your Own Faith

    Skepticism: not sure that you can even know anything. Cynicism: not really matters. Nihilism: the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless. Many of us have substituted personal faith, personal convictions, personal principles for abstracts: justice, equality, etc. But what happens if you are unable to attain… Continue reading

  • Crisis of Authority with Imam Dawud Walid

    The following interview is with Imam Dawud Walid discussing the issue of authority in the Muslim community. Dawud Walid is currently the Executive Director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI). Continue reading