The big holiday known as Eid el-Adha or Eid el-Kbir is just around the corner. The holiday celebrates the almost-sacrifice of Ishmael. This same story appears in Christian and Jewish texts, though is slightly different in that it is Ishmael who is almost sacrificed by Abraham in Islam, not Isaac. In either case, that God […]
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The so-called ‘mid-service crisis’
The Mid-service crisis is far from over. My landlord came by, and I showed him my broken faucet and asked if it was possible to get it fixed. He then told me, or I thought he told me, that he’d come by later, and I could pay him for rent then. That’s what I heard, […]
