Better late than never! Obama delivered an inspiring & soul-stirring speech to the Muslim world in Cairo, Egypt last Thursday. Here are some of my favorite points. And I’m also proud to carry with me the good will of the American people and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: Assalamu Alaikum. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘religion’
3 Jun
What a BS excuse!
The members of the Egyptian government need to be ashamed of themselves. Not only do they continuously discriminate against the Orthodox Christian minority in the country–ignoring their needs, not persecuting people who kill Orthodox priests and monks, allowing the vandalizing of churches, etc– they come up with stupid excuses for doing so. Sure, the swine [...]
3 Jun
I’ve been MIA !
Some ish has been going on in my life recently; most of it is just being busy with one of the (as of right now!) 9 graduation parties I have been invited to, family friends inviting us to their house, weddings, etc. Although this June weather is disgusting in LA (June gloom, for real), it’s [...]
24 Apr
My Help.
Psalm 121 is truly one of my favorites from the Bible. It is just what I want to read/hear when I’m having a bad day… or a good day also, as a matter of fact! 1 I lift up my eyes to the hills— where does my help come from? 2 My help comes [...]
15 Apr
“Gospel is not a Black thing… it’s a God thing!”
So this semester I joined USC’s multicultural & multi-faith Saved By Grace gospel choir and I can’t believe I waited a semester to join it. Granted, I didn’t know it even existed but I can’t imagine not being in it now. It’s such a blessing & it’s fun! Our Spring Concert is coming up and [...]
13 Apr
Now entering the Holiest Week in Christianity…
It is now Holy Week in Orthodox Christianity & that means a lot. It’s so interesting & mind-boggling how a person can trace back religious history using the Bible. Like, this past Saturday, Lazarus rose from the dead. Then yesterday, Jesus rode on a donkey’s back into Jerusalem! And I just happen to have the [...]
