Goucher College Podcasts

How did we end up with a world where when we ask each other how we are doing, the answer is usually: “I’m just so busy”? Why do we do this to ourselves? When did we forget that we are human beings, not human doings? And how do we start recovering peace in the heart, as we strive for peace in the world? Editor of Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism and director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center Omid Safi invites us to sit with these questions. Safi has a forthcoming volume from Princeton University Press on the famed mystic Rumi.