Browsing Tag: News

News: What Sikh Temple shooting?

Two days after the event, I noted that the major news networks (not including CNN) had dedicated scant coverage to the shooting compared to Aurora, leaving it "destined to disappear into the realm of the nothing-to-be-done, nothing-to-be-discussed."

News: 15 Rounds and Still Talking: Lt. Brian Murphy’s Story of the Oak Creek Massacre

“All things being relative, I’m in a good spot,” Murphy explained. “Obviously, I realize how fortunate I am to even be alive. I don’t know why, and I don’t think I’ll ever know why....

Dr Simran Jeet Singh

Executive Director of the Religion & Society Program at the Aspen Institute and the author of the national bestseller The Light We Give

News: Safe Streets, Safe Sanctuaries

What happened at Oak Creek matters to us first, as faith leaders, because we recognize a deep responsibility to act as stewards of community.

News: Enthusiastic Dashmesh Summer Camp held in Indianapolis

The teachers provided inspiring personal testimony of embracing and practicing their Sikh faith, the sanctity and respect we have for the diverse faiths and traditions that today form the rich global spiritual landscape. They addressed the spiritual ideals, outside pressures, and faith-mandated lifestyle.

News: One Moment in Time - One Year Later, Oak Creek, WI

One moment. One touch. One person. It can bring light to the world. It can bring the deepest darkness. On August 5, 2012, a year ago, the Oak Creek Gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, experienced the worst and the best of humanity.

Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa

Ek Ong Kaar Kaur writes and teaches on Gurbani.

News: Healing Communities and Remembering the Victims of Oak Creek ~ blog post by the US Attorney General

Now, the victims of Oak Creek must never be reduced to mere crime statistics. But, in order to honor their untimely losses by ensuring that justice can be done – they do need to be counted.

News: One Year After Oak Creek: Changing America's Racial Landscape

To honor them is to tell our children powerful, interconnected and hopeful narratives about their precious skin colors, faiths and cultures. To remember them is to envision and bring about a different racial landscape in our country.