How to Protect Positive Muslim Christian Relationships
A Three-Part Video Series: Part Three With growing racial and religious strife in the US, the religious tolerance of Sierra Leone offers hope we can change. Part three of this video…
What You Need to Know About Shared Muslim and Christian Values
How to Build Positive Muslim Christian Relationships Three-Part Video Series: Part Two In a time when the current administration is telling Muslim members of Congress to go back to their…
How to Promote Strong Muslim Christian Relationships
A Three-Part Video Series: Part One With the arrival of another major holiday—this time, Eid al-Fitr, the feast that breaks the Ramadan fast—I feel uneasy. Gatherings for major religious holidays…
A Surprisingly Good Nigerian Cocktail Not to Miss
Celebrating the successes of successful Asylum Seekers means adding new things to your entertaining repertoire. Enter the Chapman Cocktail from Nigeria.
How to Make a Sensational Ethiopian Appetizer: Injera Roll-ups
One of my favorite things to do is riff on a recipe. My “recipe” for Injera Rollups is a perfect example. In Ethiopian restaurants, Injera is the spongy pancake you…
Thankful for Asylum Seekers
I wasn’t looking forward to Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving was the first major holiday since my mother, Marion Wetzel, died in May, two days after her 91st birthday. I was certain Thanksgiving…
Cross Cultural Illumination #2: Mam I’m Praying
I was very excited at the prospect of picking up Mahmud at the detention center, after he received asylum. I felt like a tour guide introducing him to a kinder,…
Cross Cultural Illumination #1: It is a Cat-Dog
Dinner with two recent Ethiopian Asylees shine a light on Americans’ curious personification of pets. One of the most puzzling American habits to those new the USA is our treatment…
