[Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life] A great piece on Iran “conflicted” cultural iconography, where “winged gods and glorious battles of ancient Persian kings are balanced against ayatollahs and an Islamic revolution that nearly 30 years ago brought morality police and martyrs.”
[Lohud.com] There’s no business like Pope business. The story of one Sacred Heart Gifts.
Image: “A humble slave of Allah worshiping in a Turkish mosque,” one of the Ijtema Photo Contest winners. Itjema.net
[Pakistan Daily] “A common misconception is that Muslim women are the only ones who cover their hair … Have you ever wondered why Mary the mother of Jesus (peace be upon them both) is always depicted in Christian art with her hair covered?” No mention of Judaism and hair covering, though.
[Guardian, UK] New Arabic writers are on the scene (like Arabia Books, collaborating with the American University in Cairo), but what is being lost in translation, wonders Lucy Popescu.
[MediaCulture] “Why are the Iraq movies failing?” wonders James Rocchi. He offers a few answers.
[nakedpastor] William P. Young’s “The Shack” won’t offer you much theology, but it’s “a gift to you. As words on a page, it has no power to do anything, but as you read don’t be surprised when something happens inside that you were not expecting. That is so like Jesus.”
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