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Category: Acts of Faith
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The author of Acts of Faith has a surprising partner in fasting this Ramadan.
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Today’s post is from Reshma Melwani, Beacon’s Foreign Rights assistant. Since joining Beacon a little over a year ago, Reshma has overseen countless translation deals; this post explores some of her more inspiring deals and their significance in today’s world.
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Eboo Patel responds to the recent violence in Mumbai and finds a connection to Judaism during the Eid.
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I chuckled to myself wondering what William F. Buckley, the author of the landmark conservative tract God and Man at Yale, might have thought of this year’s Baccalaureate Service at Dartmouth College. In addition to Christian hymns and Bible readings, there was a Native American prayer offered in the Yuchi language, and recitations from the…
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"We live in a moment of religious conflict around the world, and that's precisely why we need to be proactive about a positive conversation about religion." Eboo Patel, author of Acts of Faith and founder and director of the Interfaith Youth Core, appeared with a panel of IFYC fellows on a Good Morning America segment…
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Eboo Patel, a Beacon author who blogs at the Washington Post/Newsweek website, has a a fiery post about the controversial author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whose criticism of Islam and embrace of Western values are, in Patel’s view, based on misconceptions about what both Islam and the West stand for: To all those who claim Ayaan…
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