July 2010
The American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute is pleased to announce the new class of fellows for 2010-2011. Meet the fellows. The American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute is housed at the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture and works in...
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The Egypt Daily News ran an op-ed by Reuven Firestone, CRCC senior fellow, about the late Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd. Parts of the Muslim world are experiencing a period in which scholarship and creativity such as Abu Zayd’s...
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The Jewish Journal ran an op-ed by Reuven Firestone, CRCC senior fellow, about Islam in Singapore. Firestone attended an international conference there which focused on the ways in which modern-day Muslims want to practice Islam. There is a lot bubbling...
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The recent retirement, then non-retirement, of famed Crystal Cathedral and "possibility thinking" pastor Robert Schuller, was reported over the past weekend, first in the Orange County Register, and picked up by the AP. The story was then denied by Schuller's...
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The only thing Americans seem to like more than the culture war is trying to make money off the culture war. As soon as the "Jesus fish" appeared on the back of a minivan, another enterprising group started selling the...
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