Here at Jubilee! Community Church in Asheville, we use a Bible-based interfaith Sunday school curriculum that I’ve been developing over the last several years. …
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America Founded by Puritans? Well…It’s Messy
It seems that I spend several hours each week undoing my elementary school education. Please don’t tell all the grade school teachers that I’m friends with on …
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Multifaith Mashup: Moses, Miriam, and Raksha Bandhan
What do these couples have in common – Shirley MacLaine/Warren Beatty, Zeus/Hera, Richard/Karen Carpenter? They’re all famous (at least in some circles) …
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Multifaith Mashup: Lammas, Lughnasad, and First Fruits Across Faith Traditions
Welcome to fall! One thing I’ve learned through my interfaith work is that the seasons are not nearly as well-delineated as my teachers implied during grade …
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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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Taking in the Wild Goose
Crap. A festival. I’m not a festival kind of gal. In fact, my teenaged daughter counts this as a major parenting defect. I have taken her to Indonesia, Peru, …
My Morning at Great Tree Zen Temple — Great for Kids, Too!
I was going to be rushed. In some ways, I’m always in a rush. It's a common by-product of the American dream – 2 kids, 2 cars, 2 careers, a house, a husband, a …
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What the Heck is a Cosmic Mass?
A couple of weeks ago, I attended my second cosmic mass. Both were held at Jubilee! Community church here in Asheville. In some ways they were similar; in other …