Archive for November 26th, 2007
Thoughts on racial profiling; Saudi gang rape; and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Monday, November 26th, 2007I live in the fastest growing Arabic community in New York City. Like many Brooklyn neighborhoods, Bay Ridge has been home to successive waves of immigrants, including Scandinavian, Italian, Greek, Puerto Rican, Asian and many others. Since first moving here in 1990, I have watched Fifth Avenue transform from a typical commercial Brooklyn [...]
Outreach magazine has a thing for my friends
Monday, November 26th, 2007Liz Rios joins recent cover boy Dimas Salaberrios on the cover of the latest issue of Outreach magazine. She’s profiled as an emerging Latina leader as part of the issue’s “Hispanics in America” focus:
Raised by a single mom in a community of single mothers in the Manhattan projects, Puerto-Rican born Elizabeth Rios never questioned [...]
Monday Morning MP3
Monday, November 26th, 2007Strawman Jesus
Pastor Matt Kruse, 7 Mile Road Church
On Saturday, I visited with my cousin Pastor Matt Kruse of the newly renamed 7 Mile Road Church in Malden, Massachusetts. This week’s Monday Morning MP3 features a 21-part walk through the Gospel of John he preached called Strawman Jesus. Here’s the description from the series’ [...]