--Working on the Globalization project, which is a long-term effort.
--Have decided to write on Islam Pragmatics (IP), that will be similar to the Christian Pragmatics (CP) in format (already in the blog didactics and globalization). In this effort, I will use courses I'm taking over at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Center at the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP) for information-gathering, among other resources.
The point to Islam Pragmatics is to highlight aspects of the Muslim religion that are useful in everyday living. Islam is a fast-growing religion around the world, far surpassing the numbers of Christians. But just as the Christian religion has changed over time--no more Crusades!--so the Muslim religion must change in order to meet the spiritual needs of its today living members. (Incidentally, the early Christian church had appointed women as ministers of the Gospel. One woman so designated even traveled upon occasion with St. Paul. But somehow the religion in the Middle Ages no longer appointed women to the clergy. In today's practice of Christianity we're seeing a return to the early Church, it would seem.)
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