"The Spiritual *is* Political: Tracing Divine Love onto a Broken World" with Omid Safi, part of our Howard Thurman Series. Almost all mystical traditions call our attention to Here and Now. The Kingdom of God is to be established Here, and the redemption is Here. Our great spiritual traditions are concerned not only about the spirit, but about the bodies also made in the image of God. The cosmic in us has to be about both changing the human and changing the world of which we are a part. The healing inside and the healing of the world are wrapped up in one another.

Omid Safi is a scholar in the Sufi tradition of Radical Love & Founder of Illuminated Courses & Tours. Omid is a professor at Duke University specializing in Islamic spirituality and contemporary thought. Omid is among the most frequently sought out Muslim public intellectuals in popular media, appearing in The New York Times, Newsweek, Washington Post, PBS, NPR, NBC, CNN, and other international media. He has delivered the annual Martin Luther King keynote from the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel, and preached at Ebenezer Baptist Church. His most recent book is Radical Love, which has been published by Yale University Press. He teaches courses on Islamic Spirituality, focused on the mystical poetry of Rumi and the Heart of the Qur'an.

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