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Edited by Ken Chitwood (Bloomsbury, 2026)

“Joy Comes in the Morning” is a workbook with 14 sermons delivered by the Rev. Dr. Cecil “Chip” Murray at First African Methodist Episcopal Church (FAME) in Los Angeles.

Parveena Ahanger is the chairperson of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and has been at the forefront of the cause for human rights in Jammu and Kashmir.

The hero image of religious saints involved in humanitarian work warrants examination. I have come to this conclusion in the process of leading a global project on “spiritual exemplars” at USC’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture.

“The community has to engage,” she said, because “we’re not heavily represented in this inside process, which actually can be a direct impact on police accountability.”

Yet her grandfather had insisted that it was indeed Palestine, and that just decades before she was born, a time had existed in which Muslims, Christians and Jews in the region had easily been friends, and in which they could cross the now impassable borders together between countries.

He was many things rolled into one: A committed community peace builder, a passionate promoter of religious tolerance and a tireless advocate of free education for children. Above all, Edmund Kaszibuloh Koroma was a loving and caring man who sometimes risked his safety and that of his family to protect others, especially children, from physical and mental harm.

In February 2007, Mustapha quit his legal practice of 20 years and founded the Future Prowess Islamic Foundation, a primary school to provide free education exclusively for Muslim orphans in Maiduguri.