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The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding Kindle Edition
After September 11th, Ranya Idliby, an American Muslim of Palestinian descent, faced constant questions about Islam, God, and death from her children, the only Muslims in their classrooms. Inspired by a story about Muhammad, Ranya reached out to two other mothers -- a Christian and a Jew -- to try to understand and answer these questions for her children. After just a few meetings, however, it became clear that the women themselves needed an honest and open environment where they could admit -- and discuss -- their concerns, stereotypes, and misunderstandings about one another. After hours of soul-searching about the issues that divided them, Ranya, Suzanne, and Priscilla grew close enough to discover and explore what united them.
The Faith Club is a memoir of spiritual reflections in three voices that will make readers feel as if they are eavesdropping on the authors' private conversations, provocative discussions, and often controversial opinions and conclusions. The authors wrestle with the issues of anti-Semitism, prejudice against Muslims, and preconceptions of Christians at a time when fundamentalists dominate the public face of Christianity. They write beautifully and affectingly of their families, their losses and grief, their fears and hopes for themselves and their loved ones. And as the authors reveal their deepest beliefs, readers watch the blossoming of a profound interfaith friendship and the birth of a new way of relating to others.
In a final chapter, they provide detailed advice on how to start a faith club: the questions to ask, the books to read, and most important, the open-minded attitude to maintain in order to come through the experience with an enriched personal faith and understanding of others.
Pioneering, timely, and deeply thoughtful, The Faith Club's caring message will resonate with people of all faiths.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAtria Books
- Publication dateOctober 3, 2006
- File size709 KB
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"More Fight Club than book club, the coauthors pull no punches; their outstanding honesty makes for a page-turning read, rare for a religion nonfiction book...almost every taboo topic is explored on this engaging spiritual ride." -- Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Suzanne Oliver was raised in Kansas City, Missouri, and has worked as a writer and editor at Forbes and Financial World magazines. She graduated from Texas Christian University and lives in New York City and Jaffrey Center, New Hampshire, with her husband and three children.
Priscilla Warner grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and spent many years in Boston and New York as an advertising art director, shooting ads for everything from English muffins to diamond earrings. Priscilla co-authored The New York Times bestselling memoir The Faith Club, then toured the country for three years, hyperventilating her way through an extended book tour. Finally, in the skies over Oklahoma, she vowed to find her inner monk, and began meditating her way from panic to peace.
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- ASIN : B000JMKVL2
- Publisher : Atria Books (October 3, 2006)
- Publication date : October 3, 2006
- Language : English
- File size : 709 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 416 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #450,694 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #145 in Women's Spirituality
- #192 in Religious Studies - Comparative Religion
- #304 in Christian Faith (Kindle Store)
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About the authors
Priscilla Warner grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and spent many years in Boston and New York as an advertising art director, shooting ads for everything from English muffins to diamond earrings. Priscilla co-authored The New York Times bestselling memoir The Faith Club, then toured the country for three years, hyperventilating her way through an extended book tour. Finally, in the skies over Oklahoma, she vowed to find her inner monk, and began meditating her way from panic to peace.
Ranya Tabari Idliby is a writer who lives in New York City. She was raised in Dubai and McLean, Virginia. She co-authored The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew: Three Women Search for Understanding , an intimate dialog on faith and identity in America and is the author of Burqas, Baseball and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in America. She has spoken in churches, temples, and mosques, as well as at interfaith organizations, the United Nations, and the State Department. She was interviewed by Diane Sawyer for a special program on moderate Muslim voices, in addition to many other media engagements, including CNN, Oprah radio’s Dr. Oz , The Diane Rehm Show, USA Today , and the Today Show.
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Enjoyed the read and learned alot!
Although they decry the stereotypes of their own religions, they are guilty of the same stereotypes when they make comments like one not being able to be good without a belief in a god. Or they cannot understand how people can not believe in a life after death.
I would have loved to have seen this Club include a non-theist. (No, it doesn't have to be an anti-theist to be a non-theist.)
The book also avoided what to a non-believer is obvious. Each person does not have their own faith in a god, they have their own faith in a holy book. Their gods are only defined by their holy books. Without their holy books, they would have nothing to have faith in.
The book was good, though, in that it showed that the only times there are conflicts are between one's personal beliefs and some outside, usually hierarchical or political "authority". It shows that no one should care about what the teachings are of any priest, minister, rabbi, imam, or guru. The Truth from these people are recognized as Truth only because it resonates within one's own mind - not because of any outside source. It also did a good job of trying to show the religious, extremists of all three religions as being fundamentalists. It showed that the greatest threat to society is fundamentalism - of any religion (or political persuasion). And it did a good job of trying to differentiat between the real teachings of a religion as opposed to the political highjacking that is done in the name of all three religions.
All told, it was evident that each author, to varying degrees, was seeking to formulate and customize their religion making their God and their faith what they found most comfortable and what one might call "sacrificially friendly" (not requiring more of themselves than what they were willing to give). If this is "faith" in the 21th century, then it is no wonder people find such faith unsatisfactory, hypocritical, contradictory and severely lacking.
A complete absence of understanding about sin for all three authors reflects a common 21st century mindset on faith and religion. It seems few are willing to acknowledge the inherent weakness in mankind and its impact upon our every thought, word and deed. Without humility in acknowledging the sinful nature that lies in each of us, one cannot begin to understand the sickness that invades the deepest parts of our souls resulting in our base need for repentance and renewal from this sinful state.
The end result of this book should drive the reader to do serious investigation into their own faith condition and seek a thorough and complete understanding of the historical, cultural and orthodox basis of their religion and its Holy Word rather than creating still another form of self-religion that ultimately loses its meaning with our last breath in this life, if that long.
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"We were breaking an unspoken social rule. We were talking about God and religion at a time when the stakes were high ... Our relationship was turning into something sacred, something we called our "Faith Club". We signed no official pact, but we lived by a certain code: honesty was the first rule of the Faith Club, and with that tenet as a foundation, no topic was off limits."
I found this long running conversation surprisingly dramatic and seriously entertaining. I read it aloud with my wife, and it's better than TV. I came away suspecting that such networks of real friends are the most powerful force for security in the world. Not to mention what they can do for personal growth.
--author of Correcting Jesus