Metaphorically-speaking, going around in circles is viewed as less than desirable in the worlds I inhabit. It denotes a lack of progress. A waste of time. An …
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Multifaith Mashup: Haircutting Rituals in Various Traditions
My son got his back-to-school haircut over the weekend. A couple of haircuts ago, his barber gave him a pocket knife, of all things, as a rite of passage gift. …
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Vision Quests: More Interfaith than You Might Think
On Monday, I dropped my daughter off for another week of Growing Goddess camp. The moms joke that it's just a bunch of naked girls in the woods, but the truth …
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My Amazing Ramadan Weekend
It all started with an invitation to Friday night iftar at the home of a Muslim friend. Iftar is the evening meal that breaks the daily Ramadan fast for …
Quick…Think of a Word that Rhymes with Dzikr!
Finding a rhyming word for "dzikr" was going to be difficult since I wasn’t even sure how to pronounce it. It turns out that spelling it isn’t straight-forward …
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Interfaith Ramadan — with Sarah Ager
Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, begins at the end of this month, on the evening of June 28. From dawn until sunset, observing Muslims refrain from eating …
Multifaith Mashup: Storms
Apparently, Americans are uniquely obsessed with the weather. The National Weather Service has 121,000 Twitter followers and a web site that offers weather …
Multifaith Mashup: Return, Remind, Reconsider
A few weeks ago, I spent the morning at Great Tree Zen Temple just outside Asheville, NC. I wasn’t expecting to be thinking about Islam as I sat through a …
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Prophets and Potluck
We started with Nuh, Ibrahim, Musa, and Yunus. We ended with falafel, tzatziki, a casserole, and lots of pita bread. The folks in our Qur’an study group finally …
Multifaith Mashup: Magic in the Bible and Islamic Stories
My school-aged son and I attended a magic show last Friday afternoon. It was…well…magical. This guy was pulling wine bottles out of scarves and marked $100 …
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