Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee. Golden Sufi Center (IPG, dist.), $12.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-890350-35-2 Vaughan-Lee (Love Is a Fire) complements intensity with brevity, which allows him to ignite ...

Many excellent scholars study Islam. Many other scholars explore the changing face of global Christianity. Rarely do those experts look at the two worlds—Muslim and Christian—side by side, which is a ...

English literature PhD Potter debuts with an elegant and impressive history of the Roma people. She traces how governments have sought to eject, eradicate, and assimilate the Continue reading » A ...

will host an evening experience of Sufi spirituality Thursday, May 2, at 6:30 p.m. at in downtown Portland. The event is free and open to the public. Donations are welcome. Sufism, often described as ...

An apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, or so it’s said. Not so in the case of Marietta Bahri Della Penna, of Brackney, Pa. The little girl who grew up among Italian immigrants in the Bronx meandered ...

The smoke of the hashish spread through the air as Basheer took a puff from his cigarette, staring at me through kohl-smeared eyes. He had a thick, long white beard, though his hair was neatly trimmed ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

I received a surprise forward this week: music composed by The Sufi Gospel Project, which melds Islamic, Christian and Hindu aural traditions. And it got me thinking of the most beautiful hymn of all: ...