{"id":44199,"date":"2017-09-08T23:04:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T05:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=44199"},"modified":"2017-09-08T23:04:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T05:04:22","slug":"hoping-peace-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/09\/hoping-peace-religions.html","title":{"rendered":"Hoping for peace between religions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Flushing,<\/a>
A mosque in Queens, New York (Wikimedia CC public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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My wife is off on the coast of Oregon. \u00a0Curiously, I\u2019ve had a song running through my head for the past couple of days. \u00a0This one<\/a>. \u00a0The lyrics don\u2019t apply perfectly, but close enough.<\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Many of my daughter-in-law\u2019s relatives are in Miami. \u00a0They live there. \u00a0We\u2019re all very concerned. \u00a0Fortunately, they\u2019re congregating in one well-built home that\u2019s at a good elevation: \u00a0twelve feet above sea level. \u00a0We\u2019re all still very concerned.<\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is a wonderful effort, a ray of light in an often very dark region:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMorocco\u2019s Muslim monarch is trying to preserve the country\u2019s Jewish history \u2014 before it\u2019s too late\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a parallel story:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn a bid to promote diversity, Egypt plans to restore Alexandria synagogue\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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I earnestly hope that these undertakings prosper and succeed.<\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And this story, set in the United States, is also very heartening:<\/p>\n

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\u201cA Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Islamophobia\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, in some places things aren\u2019t always going nearly so well:<\/p>\n

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\u201cCan Anyone Stop Burma\u2019s Hardline Buddhist Monks?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Not even, it seems, in New York City, as this rather long but well-written New Yorker<\/em> article recounts:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Trials of a Muslim Cop\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bobbie Coray brings this article to my attention, a piece clearly written from a liberal perspective that\u00a0seems relevant in the present context:<\/p>\n

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\u201cBuilding Bridges of Faith\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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This, too, is written from a left-leaning vantage point, but may be of interest to anybody who wants to get a glimpse of inter-religious relationships in contemporary India:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat We Can Learn From Religious Liberty Battles in India\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe new country lay open before me: there were no fences in those days, and I could choose my own way over the grass uplands, trusting the pony to get me home again. Sometimes I followed the sunflower-bordered roads. Fuchs told me that the sunflowers were introduced into that country by the Mormons; that at the time of the persecution when they left Missouri and struck out into the wilderness to find a place where they could worship God in their own way, the members of the first exploring party, crossing the plains to Utah, scattered sunflower seeds as they went. The next summer, when the long trains of wagons came through with all the women and children, they had a sunflower trail to follow. I believe that botanists do not confirm Jake\u2019s story but, insist that the sunflower was native to those plains. Nevertheless, that legend has stuck in my mind, and sunflower-bordered roads always seem to me the roads to freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\u2015\u00a0Willa Cather,\u00a0My \u00c1ntonia<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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