Spreading Appreciation for Others

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	• The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, ... Free Press, 2007 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 65 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A matter of faith

Don't read this book for in-depth knowledge of Christianity, Judaism or Islam. And you won't find spiritual enlightment between its pages either. But what you will find is a primer, a beginner's guide to understanding that these 3 faiths are not very much different from each other after all. Regardless of our own misconceptions and stereotypes, these faiths are joined by a common thread - love for God, and for each other. Everything else is (mis)interpreted through the lens of culture, society and one's personal reading of the Tanakh, Quran or Bible.

Suzanne, Ranya and Priscilla share their journey with all the painful, uncomfortable and sensitive parts laid bare for frank and open discussion. I was particularly interested in how Ranya introduced moderate Islam to her Jewish and Christian friends, and slowly changed their long standing misperceptions. If you're keen to find out more of each religion, The Faith Club is a good start. With tips at the end for starting your own faith club.

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Spreading Appreciation for Others

This book is written in a way that helps the reader relate to each woman as an individual, while they blow away stereotypes about their respective religious groups. It demonstrates that getting to know each other, one on one, one at a time, really is the way to spread peace in the world. One poignant quote in the book (from a rabi): "Tolerance is too negative a word." We must do more than tolerate each other, we must appreciate, celebrate, and care about one another. And this book is a step in the right direction.

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The Faith Club

I thought The Faith Club was one of the most important book I ever read. I thought the author's journey through their particular faiths was so inspiring to me because I am continually questioning my faith. I also felt that it is so important to try to understand other beliefs.

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Seriously better than TV

As Martin Luther King mentioned, religion is the most socially segregated dimension of our society. And after 9/11, three New York mothers of three different faiths worried that walls of silence between religious communities were a danger to their children's future. Hoping to promote some understanding by writing a book for children, these women introduced themselves and formed a committee. And near as I can tell, they never ended up writing the children's book. It's just that along the way they found something greater -- a live circle of friends where unstintingly open conversation became a process of self-discovery. As the Muslim woman of this trio, Ranya Idliby says,

"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.

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A masterpiece!

How wonderful! Coming from the heart and very gutsy. We men can never do that. I loved the focus on the basic values that unite us as opposed to the differences that has caused so much hardships and wars over the centuries. You go girls!

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