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2021-10-15T10:46:59-04:00

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

The Feminine Power Supporting the Prophets

Last updated on: October 15, 2021 at 10:46 am By Saimma Dyer

I was struck by Jim Garrison and Banafsheh Sayyad’s article last year for the Huffington Post: “Muhammad was a Feminist”. It touched on some interesting viewpoints and received a lot of positive and negative responses. And while the article didn’t go into much detail, it stayed with me and left me with another interesting thought: while you can argue endlessly about whether Muhammad was or wasn’t a feminist (and get further lost in debates about which definition of Feminism you... Read more

2017-12-18T22:03:05-04:00

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Complex Trauma and Spiritual Healing Power of Sufism

Last updated on: December 18, 2017 at 10:03 pm By Daliah Merzaban

Since I was a 13-year-old spending recesses in the schoolyard composing poems inspired by my turbulent home life, I’ve been passionate about storytelling. My career has centered on telling thousands of stories about the interplay between economics, politics and financial markets in developing countries. I also love blogging about the ways the spiritual tradition of Islam, or the act of surrendering oneself to the Divine, unfolds in my life. Some may say writing comes naturally to me, that it’s my... Read more

2017-04-20T13:36:57-04:00

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On Saints as Friends of the Divine

Last updated on: April 20, 2017 at 1:36 pm By Anna Rohleder

Saints were everywhere in my Catholic childhood. Their haloed, beseeching visages appeared in the unlikeliest places, from laminated prayer cards that fell out of books to oblong medals glued on to car dashboards. This suggested to me that saints were holy people pulled down to earth by the concerns of daily life. Their names designated landmarks of fraught emotional territory that we mortals were ill-equipped to navigate alone: schools, churches, hospitals. As patron saints, they even had something like job... Read more

2017-04-04T09:15:04-04:00

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What the Heart Knows

Last updated on: April 4, 2017 at 9:15 am By Daniel Thomas Dyer

My wife and I were recently invited to lead another service at our local Unitarian chapel and when thinking about what our theme should be, it occurred to us that both Muslims and Unitarians champion the use of reason, firmly insisting that reason should be a bedrock of faith. Yet within Islam, there has always been a mode of knowing which transcends human reason, an intuitive knowledge of the heart which Sufis in particular have attempted to explore. Perhaps here... Read more

2017-03-26T11:11:44-04:00

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The Mercy of the Ailing Body

Last updated on: March 26, 2017 at 11:11 am By Anna Rohleder

One evening a few weeks before my 25th birthday, I alighted from a train in the Heidelberg railway station and took off running. It was a twice-weekly routine at the time. I was taking evening classes at the University of the Frankfurt, and the train returning me to Heidelberg arrived just a few minutes before the last tram of the night departed, leaving it up to me to make the short connection in a burst of sheer personal speed. I... Read more

2017-03-09T10:07:34-04:00

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The Most Important Thing I Learned From Our Murshid

Last updated on: March 9, 2017 at 10:07 am By Kabir Helminski

He could have been someone’s grandfather from Sicily, dressed in a three-piece suit, walking with a cane, the bearer of the mischievous yet innocent smile. But, somehow, contained within this merely earthly form was a powerful generator of heart-melting love — a love free of any sentimentality, sanctimony, or possessiveness. My first encounter with a Sufi Murshid forever changed my idea of what a spiritual master could be. Until that time I had met a number of highly developed human... Read more

2017-02-19T16:57:59-04:00

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Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and the Women in His Life

Last updated on: February 19, 2017 at 4:57 pm By Anna Rohleder

Dearest M, Where do we go from here? For the last year I have been writing you these letters like a distant admirer. But I don’t want to stay at a remove any longer. I want to be as close to you as I possibly can. And more than that: I want to know how you and I can be together, forever. Beyond the limits of space and time, and any other ideas of what might be... Read more

2017-11-20T15:11:34-04:00

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Translating Love’s Confusion: Hollywood and Misreading Rumi

Last updated on: November 20, 2017 at 3:11 pm By Daliah Merzaban

The 2010 Hollywood celebrity fest chick-flick Valentine’s Day opens with Reed Bennett, a florist played by Ashton Kutscher, proposing marriage to Morley (Jessica Alba), as she wakes up on Feb. 14. Evidently startled, Morley initially accepts, sending Reed on a joyful mission to let everyone know his sweetheart said “yes”! But his elation is short-lived. A few hours later Reed finds Morley in his apartment packing her bag as she hands back his ring and walks out on the relationship... Read more

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2017-01-27T18:06:41-04:00

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Mother Nature and the 99 Names

Last updated on: January 27, 2017 at 6:06 pm By Daniel Thomas Dyer

One of the aims of our new book The 99 Names of God is to help children, parents, and teachers build a spiritual link to the natural world, making us aware that God communicates to us through nature in the most beautiful, awesome, playful, and sublime manner. Young and old are encouraged to see how we learn spiritual and ethical lessons in the natural world, how we are nourished by it inwardly and outwardly, and that outside of the human... Read more

2017-01-26T16:11:34-04:00

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Spiritual Wisdom In A Treasure The Burglars Left Behind

Last updated on: January 26, 2017 at 4:11 pm By Daliah Merzaban

In the heap of objects strewn across the dining room floor, I spotted a sterling silver sugar bowl that was part of a four-piece tea set my mom bought about three decades ago to entertain guests. I picked up the bowl with one hand, while using the other to rummage through the pile of papers, cloth napkins, tupperware and cutlery scattered beneath my feet. I was curious whether the rest of the silverware was somewhere in the mess left by... Read more

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