Photo by Mona MirpourWarm brown light greeted Trinity’s Jazz Ensemble as four of its members took the stage, their instruments already tuned as they settled into their positions. Senior drummer Dominic...

“Who perfected everything which He created and began the creation of human from clay” (Qur’an, 32:7). It was not from light like the angels, not from fire like the jinn. It was from the cold, lifeless...