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We need your support! By The AltMuslimah Team, December 15, 2011 |
We’re raising funds to keep AltMuslimah going strong... and you can help! We need funds to attend and arrange important events, conferences, and seminars, to make our website more professional, content & media rich, and of course compensate and reward our dedicated volunteers and writers who put countless hours and effort into bringing important and relevant articles to you every day.  ( ) |
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No fear of flying By Ashley E. McGuire, November 22, 2011 |
In this piece, the editor of AltCatholicah - AltMuslimah's partner site - explains the site's mission to a Catholic audience.
As a little girl, I found it infinitely frustrating that I could not fly. Sure, people can fly in planes, but we can’t fly. It took me a couple of decades to gradually discover that, in fact, humans can fly. Writing is flying. Flying looks like this: keyboard before you, wrist arched from the weight of an eager index finger hovering above a letter. Any letter. Lower and click. And you’re off! ( ) |
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Help us help you By THE ALTMUSLIMAH EDITORIAL STAFF, October 11, 2011 |
Celebrating its third year as a vibrant web magazine with a growing offline presence, AltMuslimah is looking
to expand and exponentially grow its online readership and participation in offline projects. ( ) |
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What is Altcatholicah? By Ashley E. McGuire, August 10, 2011 |
As I write this, I have Pentecost on my mind. The image of crimson calla lilies curling like flames at the feet of a statue of Our Lady in my local parish, her gaze turned downward, remains with me still. Mary, full of grace. Mary, on fire. Images such as this bring me back to the questions that have led me to create this web magazine: What does it mean to be a Catholic woman? What does it mean to simultaneously embody the graceful obedience of the Mother of the Church and the flame-like fervor of her Magnificat? ( ) |
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Exploring the dangers of excessive sentimentality By Ashley Crouch, April 25, 2011 |
Women are in love with love. Particularly around Valentine’s Day and further into the spring, many women find themselves dreaming of a romance that will solve all of life’s ills and provide their heart’s desire. It doesn’t stop with Valentine’s Day. Women are by far the largest consumers of chick-flicks and romance novels. ( ) |
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The biology of marriage By Ashley Samelson McGuire, January 12, 2011 |
When I did a search for Professor Robert P. George, Ryan Anderson, and Sherif Girgis’ recent essay “ What is Marriage?” for the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, I couldn’t help but notice the Google advertisements that appeared on my sidebar. The first touted “Gay Marriage in D.C.” The second offered guidance on how to “Become a Marriage Therapist.” The third, and most disconcerting, advertised for “Beautiful Russian Girls Seeking Marriage in USA.” ( ) |
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Living Gender, Living Faith By Asma T. Uddin, January 5, 2011 |
Gender is a topic relevant to all spheres of life from the courtroom to the bedroom, workplace to worship centers. The Buxton Initiative and AltMuslimah aim to provide a space for people to share their stories and raise questions as they negotiate issues of gender and religion. To kick off this program, we will be hosting An Interfaith Social on January 31st at 6:30pm at The Case Foundation, 1717 Rhode Island Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20036. ( ) |
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Emotional immodesty on Facebook: a Christian perspective By Ashley E. Samelson, July 26, 2010 |
Everybody loves to complain about Facebook. A constantly changing layout and interface. An addictive waste of time. And, most recently, Facebook has provoked an outcry from users over the complicated and ever-changing privacy settings. Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg responded recently to these latest complaints in a Washington Post op-ed, and in his defense of Facebook, articulated the “few simple ideas” upon which it was built. “People want to share and stay connected with their friends and the people around them... If people share more, the world will become more open and connected. And a world that’s more open and connected is a better world. These are still our core principles today.” ( ) |
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Grace in all faiths By Ashley E. Samelson , June 16, 2010 |
Somewhere in the back of a dress shop, a heap of lace, buttons, and silk sits quietly on a table. Over the next couple of months, it will come together by the delicate hands of seamstresses to become the dress I will wear on my wedding day. I am having my dress handmade, because I discovered that finding a modest bridal gown is a rather impossible feat these days. After looking at dress after dress online and pushing back hanger after hanger at every nearby bridal store, I got the message: strapless and plunging are in, covering up on one’s wedding day is not. ( ) |
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Zuleikha in the Qur’an and in the Bible By Asma T. Uddin, Homayra Ziad, Rachel Barenblat, and Marion Lev-Cohen, October 30, 2009 |
In August, four scholars and a small group of Jewish and Muslim emerging religious leaders met to discuss the story of Joseph in the Qur’an and in the Bible. Here are four reflections, by two Muslim women and two Jewish women, about the significance of Zuleikha in the story and in their respective traditions. ( ) |
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Wardrobe! By Mayim Bialik, August 17, 2009 |
As part of Altmuslimah's efforts to explore gender themes that Islam has in common with other faiths, the star of ‘Blossom,’ Mayim Bialik, reflects here on how her Jewish faith and its concept of modesty (tzniut) changed the way she dresses. ( ) |
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