We are currently experiencing a full moon. It’s not a particularly mind-bending experience for grown-ups. It’s been happening about every 29 days for our entire …
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Multifaith Mashup: Describing God
What does God look like? How can we describe God? How does God appear to us? Poets, mystics, religious leaders, and lay people from all the faith traditions …
Here Come the Holidays! Time to Fast?
For most Americans, the major holiday season of the year falls between Thanksgiving and Christmas, despite retailers who begin pushing high-level consumerism …
Happy Birthday, Bahá’u’lláh!
November 12 marks a special day in the Bahá’í faith. In 1817, their founder, Mira Husayn ‘Ali, later known as Bahá’u’lláh (Bah-ha-OO-lah), was born in Persia …
What I Learned Last Night from Billy Graham
A fundamentalist, evangelical, or born-again Christian, I am not. Some people would tell you I’m not a Christian at all. But I do live in Asheville, NC, less …
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Happy New Year! Again?!
Today is al-Hijra – New Year’s Day according to the Islamic calendar. The Islamic calendar began in 622 CE, so happy 1435! As an interfaith educator, I’m always …
Why Our Sunday School Celebrates Diwali
Our Sunday School program finds a way to celebrate the holidays of most major religions. Sometimes, we celebrate them along with the rest of the world. …
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Why I Love My Pagan Temple
In a sentence…I love my pagan temple because it’s loving, open-hearted, and as full of wonderful ritual as any church I’ve ever attended. This week, I attended …
(Un)Happy Halloween?
Halloween is clearly suffering from an identity crisis. Everyone, it seems, has the correct answer about the holiday’s origins and how it should be observed in …
Holy Cricket, Batman!
We’re currently talking about the ten plagues in our Sunday School classes, so when I heard a news story using the words “pope” and “cricket” in the same …