Sunday Morning Salons: Cultivating Engaged Citizenship – Alison Colpitts and Helen Mo
“Somewhere between a faith community potluck and the French salon, we carved out a working model and named it Sunday Morning Salon.” – Sunday Morning Salon creators Alison Colpitts and Helen Mo look back on thirteen successful salons and reflect on what it means to “stay informed” in today’s world.
Link roundup: 27 February – 5 March
- Pagans and Druids in the UK are campaigning for their religion to be recognised in the country’s census.
- Necmettin Erbakan, the former leader of Turkey’s Islamist Welfare Party, has died.
- Glenn Beck is apologising for comparing rabbis to Islamist radicals.
- A Christian website in the US suggests that its followers ‘adopt a terrorist’ for prayer.
- The Pew Center lists the top 5 religion stories that spilled the most ink in the last year. Four of them involve Islam.
Black Swan. Or, What do Psychotic Ballerinas and Religion Have in Common? – Barbara Greenberg
Tonight, in the land of movies, it’s Oscar night. I’m not a movie buff, and I don’t really honestly care all that much about the Oscars (or the Golden Globes, or any other award show for that matter), but I did recently see ‘Black Swan’, which is coincidentally nominated for various awards at the Oscars. If you haven’t seen the movie I’ll warn you in advance – there might be some spoilers here. Sorry!
You may be wondering, “What the heck do psychotic ballerinas and religion have in common?” As it turns out, quite a bit.
Meet Me at the Barricades – Nick Dion
I assume that I’m not alone in following the political unrest in Egypt these days. While outcomes are difficult to predict, and there is a tendency to get caught up in the excitement of events, especially when they are taking place so far away and we can watch them with a sense of privileged detachment – here even the supposed space-time compression of globalisation seems to fail us – it does look like this could be a turning point of some kind in the politics of the region. Whether this change will occur for the better or for the worse remains to be seen.
Link roundup: 10 February – 16 February
- A young woman who wears the hijab was fired from her job as an esthetician in a suburb of Toronto. She claims discrimination. The salon claims that her performance was lacking, but that it ‘promotes hair’.
- The provincial assembly in Quebec has voted to ban the kirpan within its doors. Sikhs are understandably disappointed by the decision.
- Meanwhile, a Montreal taxi driver who is contesting a fine for having too many religious items on his dashboard will have to wait a bit longer before a decision is made.
- Is the Justin Bieber movie a secret plot to turn the star into a teen evangelist?
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