A child dies every 45 seconds from malaria, a preventable and treatable disease, but what can I do about it?

As young interfaith activists, a Hindu Brit and a Christian American, we've been challenged in demonstrating how life in our communities, whether London or New York, can connect to...

As many of you are well aware, Lowe's pulled their ads from The Learning Channel's "All-American Muslim." Or, perhaps a better way to say it is that they allowed themselves to be bullied into accepting idea that there is something inherently controversial about showing American Muslims in a "moderate" light....

Lately, while engaged in my work as an interfaith activist, I found myself engaging in another type of dialogue: a conversation of generational differences. At times, it seems that religious leaders haven't quite wrapped their heads around the thoughts and actions of religious millennials. Whether discussing the Arab...

When religious tension between Muslims and Christians rocked northern Nigeria on Jan. 8 of this year, the refrain of religiously fueled violence sounded so much like it had before. The "other" was at fault for the...

While doing my daily routine of scanning religious freedom articles, I came across a rather striking headline: "'Pastafarian' Wins Religious Freedom Right to Wear Pasta Strainer for Driving Licence."

To save you the effort of reading the original story, essentially a guy in Austria got the pasta...

Few Americans can forget where they were when they heard about the attacks of 9/11. New Yorkers fled Manhattan while the rest of the nation watched in horror on television. For many husbands and wives, it meant that their loved ones were lost in the wreckage. For all Americans, no...

The discourse between evangelical Christians and atheists has been antipodal at best. Whether it is Richard Dawkins calling faith "the great cop-out," or countless professed Christians using "godless" like an offensive epithet, we've reached new lows. In fact, generally the discussion quickly descends into a volley of talking points and...

In American history, there have been flash points of controversy, contrasted to continued struggles for equality. Americans from the Muslim community has moved from the former to the latter. Since the summer's media obsession over Park51, wrongly dubbed the "Ground Zero Mosque," we have seen many flash points flare up,...

Seeing the Egyptian protests on American media may lead you to believe that this is an Iranian-style revolution, with a probable result being an Islamic regime. However, when you look at the details of what is happening on the ground, this is an interfaith movement.

Since 2006, I have been...

Representative Peter King (R-NY), Chair of the Homeland Security Committee of the House of Representatives, plans to hold public hearings about the "radicalization" of Muslim Americans. In a December 20, 2010 interview, he even claimed that we are "under siege by Muslim terrorists." In response, I...

I read the latest foiled terrorist plot in Portland like many people do, with a mix of shock and relief. However, this one struck closer to home, literally. While I have lived in New York now for over six years, I grew up just outside Portland in a small town...

Many saw President Obama's speech in Indonesia last month as a second attempt to improve America's relationship with Muslim communities around the world, after his first attempt in Cairo in June 2009. He addressed issues such as development, democracy, and religion -- complimenting Indonesia's ability to...

Last Friday on Bill Maher's show on HBO, he had an epiphany that should trouble many of us. After discovering that the various spellings of Mohamed together comprised the most popular name for baby boys in the United Kingdom, he claimed he was "alarmed" and later divulged, "I don't have...

Murfreesboro, a small city you'd pass in a few minutes while taking Interstate-24 out of Nashville to Chattanooga, has never been a town of much interest to the rest of the country. Other than temporarily being Tennessee's capital (1818-1826) and hosting the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, the Battle...

As we have previously announced, Religious Freedom USA is set to hold the Liberty Walk, a rally in support for Park51, the proposed Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan. But much more is at stake here than many people realize. This is not simply another rally...

When addressing global religious issues, typically the conversation is left to the religious leaders. While there is a need for religious leaders to convene on vital topics, the long history of this format of interfaith dialogue has revealed its shortcomings.

When religious division becomes communal violence, this breakdown usually is...

In the shocking and fortunately failed case of the attempted bombing of Time Square this past weekend, I began seeing a pattern in terminology defining anti-government violence and terrorism. Many reports say, "It is unsure whether or not this was an act of terrorism." What they mean, of course, is,...

Not more than a week after my rant about the absurdities that poured from the mouth of Pat Robertson regarding Haiti's earthquake, I have the bittersweet experience of reading this headline: "Iranian Cleric: Promiscuous Women Cause Earthquakes." Essentially, Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, a senior cleric, made this preposterous claim...

Lately I have been hearing some rather outrageous assertions made on the behalf of God from supposed "Christian" leaders. Pat Robertson called the Haitian earthquake God's judgment on the nation he claimed "made a pact with the Devil." Most recently, the Christian Right's favored child Glenn Beck instructed Christians to...