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Title: The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding
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| The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding by Free Press 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. | | The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding by Free Press 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. | | The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding by Free Press 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! | | The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding by Free Press Valuable role models | | The most striking features of this book are the authors' thought processes made manifest, with actual transcribed dialogue broken up by first-person narration, and theology made practical, with stories and teachings presented not in their entirety but in their relevance. I have not yet learned much in specific doctrine of any of the three faiths from this discussion, but I have envied the authors their trust in each other and in their own power to *search for* reason and understanding. There is pluralism out there -- go, if I may borrow from rabbi Hillel, and learn it. | | The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding by Free Press Three Women discuss their lack of Faith | What could have been a wonderful book of three women of the three Abrahamic faiths discussing their religions and the issues that divide then and unite them never realizes it's potential. What are presented are three women of marginal religious observance who see their religions more as a cultural identity than real faith. A book with observant women discussing their everyday rituals and finding common and contrasting ideals in their lives would have made a more relevant read.
We could have seen how Jewish and Islamic dietary laws make them feel closer to the divine will of God. We could learn how a Christian and Muslim witness to spread the word and how they have a common duty. I would love to see how three Observant and religious women discuss their roles and how they integrate their practices with modern life.
I wanted to see three women discuss the relevant events of today, the Iraq war, Israel, and terrorism. How do three religious women come to terms with their differences on these difficult issues? How do there views differ from how three men might view the same events?
What you get instead is three affluent women really discussing nothing of real substance. They really just discuss how they are spiritual and create a comfortable faith that is more about themselves than anything else.
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