Do you use social media?

 

Tens of thousands are joining Facebook, Meetup or Living Social every day. Many are using these internet sites to find friends and faith. Here's one example of a Meetup group that has met 33 times! There are 16 core members who invite many others for discussion and food.…

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district are known as ‘Aliya Santana’ or ‘Aliya Kattu’. As the name itself implies, Aliya

Santana is a system of inheritance in which succession is traced through the ‘female line’.

Here the property descends through the mother, from uncle to nephews-children of the sister.

The term is the exact Kannada translation of the Malayalam term Marumakkathayom.

The story behind Aliya Santana…

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The Soldiers of Our Ghettos

 

There is a reason our ghettos are becoming militarized, a reason we must soon address with better solutions for poverty, security, justice, and education if we truly hope to avert a crisis and create World Peace.

 

The fear response has a biological purpose, it triggers the release of a series of hormones that prepare the body to fight or flee.

 

The adrenalized state of the body shifts brain functions…

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CIOGC condemns act of sending explosives on cargo planes



(CHICAGO- OCTOBER 29, 2010) - The Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago stands with our faith partners and the Jewish community in condemning the recent terrorist act to send explosives through cargo airlines to Jewish organizations in Chicago.



President Barack Obama declared today that authorities had uncovered a "credible terrorist threat" against the United States… Continue

Human beings are social creatures,…

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What is required of humanity today is a moral ethic, derived from a spiritual ethic. Politics and Finance do not make any positive contribution to this cause. Individuals can, and should, work to develop their personal integrity and spiritual conviction. Beyond that we should establish a social and moral ethic, derived from spiritual and integral consciousness, which can guide our political and financial institutions.



To be influential in this new evolution, we need to move beyond… Continue

I confess, I've copy-and-pasted this from my personal blog, but it doesn't seem off-topic, either for the interreligious movement or for the inevitable entanglements between our secular habits and spiritual aspirations:



So I wrote the following letter as a response to Glenn Beck's recent call for Christians to renounce any church, congregation, or parish that calls for "social justice" or "economic justice" because they are code words for "nazism" and "communism."



First,… Continue

First, our PeaceNext Beta Group has well surpassed 100 people from around the world representing a great many faith traditions and personal experiences. I am very excited when I log in, and there's already a wealth of great content here.



Second, I want to post a link to a video that I originally uploaded as a test several weeks ago. If you watch this you may be skeptical of the numbers and citations... don't doubt them. They are real. And while social networks are not really distinct… Continue