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The Essential Role of Community in Faith

By Sarina Bajwa, Published: February 14, 2012

 The integral role community plays in the practice of faith is powerful and moving. Finding one’s way into a group of people who are together simply to understand their faith better...

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Violating our Conscience

By John Alley, Published: February 14, 2012

 The most recent political brouhaha has thrust religious communities around the United States into the uncomfortable position of having to ‘violate their conscience.’ Are we to numb...

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My First Halaqa

By John Alley, Published: January 26, 2012

 Last night, I attended my first halaqa -- a meeting to discuss issues of faith in the Islamic community (kind of like a Bible study). It was a young, diverse crowd of 20-somethings from a...

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Leaving the Property

By John Alley, Published: January 24, 2012

 This past September I returned, as a part of the Fellow Program, to The Falls Church, where I had attended with my family from 1988 to 1991.  Then from 1991 to 1994, I had...

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From the Washington Post: Can I Vote for a Mormon?

By Kenneth Star, Published: January 8, 2012

Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary looms large on the political horizon. In the midst of lively public debates over taxes, jobs, the national debt and similarly important questions...

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Refreshing the Conversation, Building our Resources: Expanding the Buxton Forum

By Sarina Bajwa, Published: January 6, 2012

Buxton is a forum for relationship building and a place where difficult questions and any and all topics can be discussed at a genuine and sincere level. The goal is to cultivate understanding and...

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Personal Reflections on Buxton

By Marie Boucaud, Published: December 21, 2011

The Karen Armstrong event hosted by Buxton Initiative on November 15, 2011 was certainly one I will remember for a long time. As the event came to an end, I was observing people in the room wondering...

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The Monster

By John Alley, Published: December 8, 2011

From H.E. Archbishop Celestino Migliore’s lecture entitled, “Catholicism and Islam: Points of Convergence and Divergence, Encounter and Cooperation,” Notre Dame University, 15...

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