The Faith Club Coming to Detroit

Many bookclubs have been reading The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew - Three Women Search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner. Now these three authors will be coming to Metro Detroit as presenters at the Jewish Community Center's annual Jewish Book Fair on November 13th, Tuesday at 7:00 PM!! WISDOM will be co-sponsoring this presentation along with the Muslim Unity Center so far, and probably other organizations in the near future. Please mark your calendars and more details will follow.

This is a wonderful book for interfaith dialogue!! From the book jacket:

"After September 11th, Ranya Idliby, an American Muslim of Palestinian descent, faced constant questions about Islam, God, and death from her children, the only Muslims in their classrooms. Inspired by a story about Muhammad, Ranya reached out to two other mothers - a Christian and a Jew - to try to understand and answer these questions for her children. After just a few meetings, however, it became clear that the women themselves needed an honest and open environment where they could admit - and discuss - their concerns, stereotypes, and misunderstanding about one another. After hours of soul-searching about the issues that divided them, Ranya, Suzanne, and Priscilla grew close enough to discover and explore what united them.

The Faith Club is a memoir of spiritual reflections in three voices that will make readers feel as if they are eavesdropping on the authors' private conversations, provocative discussions, and often controversial opinions and conclusions. The authors wrestle with the issues of anti-Semitism, prejudice against Muslims, and preconceptions of Christians at a time when fundamentalists dominate the public face of Christianity. They write beautifully and affectingly of their families, their losses and grief, their fears and hopes for themselves and their loved ones. And as the authors reveal their deepest beliefs, readers watch the blossoming of a profound interfaith friendship and the birth of a new way of relating to others.

In a final chapter, they provide detailed advice on how to start a faith club: the questions to ask, the books to read, and most important, the open-minded attitude to maintain in order to come through the experience with an enriched personal faith and understanding of others."

Please mark your calendars, read this book, and join WISDOM at the West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center at Maple and Drake on Tuesday, November 13th at 7:00 PM.