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Avenue M is for people who want more. More rigor, more honesty, more willingness to name what's at stake. We're Joey and Haroon, pursuing conversations about faith as it's lived: inspiring, tiring, and always full of meaning.
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Cleaning from Behind (opens the original)
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There are two Americas. In one America, ablution can be misrepresented as apartheid, foot-washing is a definite threat to our freedom, and accommodations at an international airport to our own diversity must be opposed. In the very same America, we’ve got Mayor Mamdani, who recently explained that he’s installed so-called Muslim showers at Gracie Mansion—but nothing obscenely expensive, he insisted, just affordable, Shariah-required hygiene. What’s the connection between these two Americas? What
When America Chose Decline (opens the original)
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Last Friday was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11th attacks. So why are we releasing our September 11th episode a week later? Haroon shared how this anniversary hit differently than previous. Maybe it was the greater attention this anniversary received. Or it was his finding himself on a different campus, two-and-a-half decades later, sharing memories of the day with students who had no direct experience of the attacks or their impacts—on all Americans and then much of the world,
Can We Have a Reasonable Conversation about Immigration? (opens the original)
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We started Avenue M for conversations like this one: Ours wasn’t ever meant to be a podcast that claimed all the answers, where we’re the same before and after each episode, and that might never be as true as it was this week. Joey asked Haroon to help him think out loud about immigration (and, by association, the nation-state, borders, and the reach of our compassion and morality.)Joey opened by asking how anyone could reconcile the Sermon on the Mount, and the foundations and reach of Christia
The New Age of American Islamophobia (opens the original)
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From the panic about ablution stations in the Dallas airport to fear-mongering about American Muslim candidates and politicians, we appear to be suffering a surge of anti-Muslim animus. That’s why, this week, Avenue M brings you a different kind of take on Islamophobia, from why it’s suddenly roared back into our algorithms to what we, individually and collectively, should do about it. Hopefully, we all know why bias and bigotry are wrong. But do we know how wrong they really are — while it’s im
The L.A. Lakers Sell Their Soul (opens the original)
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We used to watch religiously. While we kept our faiths, though, we’ve lost our faith in sports. Is that just two middle-aged man looking for an excuse to cover up why we can’t keep up? Is it our phones? Is it the scattered brains of parents with demanding jobs and lives? Maybe we found we had more to do for others and less time for ourselves which is, also, a good definition of growing up. But maybe sports changed too, and that’s the most interesting, devastating, revealing point of all. Maybe t
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