Committing Faith in Public with Aliye Shimi

Committing Faith in Public Podcast with Aliye ShimiAliye Shimi is the executive director of Tulsa’s oldest ecumenical/interfaith organization, Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry. In that role, and in the MANY volunteer hours Aliye gives, Aliye is among the fiercest and kindest advocates for justice, dignity, compassion, and basic human decency in Tulsa and everywhere. She lives her Muslim faith, in public, for the sake of a better Tulsa, a better Oklahoma, a better nation, and a better world. In this interview with Gary Peluso-Verdend, Aliye tells of the difficult national and personal events that propelled her into public life. Listen as she constantly takes a negative experience and uses it to fuel positive change. Email Trista Soendker Nicholson, interim executive director of the Center for Religion in Public LIfe, to let her know about someone in the community you've seen practicing faithful disruption. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.