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 …
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 …