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31 Ways To Know You’re In The Right Relationship

A good piece! Good signs of knowing the relationship Mike Ghouse   Courtesy of Huffington Post  margaret.johnson@huffingtonpost.com   As anyone living in the age of depressing divorce rates knows, a happy long-term couple is almost like a unicorn: If by some miracle you encounter it, you can’t stop staring, and you have a feeling no […]

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Seven things you don’t know about interfaith marriage

I will be posting pieces on interfaith marriages, as I continue to cherish the couples who respect the otherness of others, and continue to conduct weddings for people of all faiths or no faith with sermons to satisfy their own tradition. Mike Ghouse Seven things you don’t know about interfaith marriage By Naomi Schaefer Riley

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In love and marriage, do different faiths really matter in America?

DO INTERFAITH MARRIAGES MATTER? http://interfaithmarriages.blogspot.com/ Religions don’t marry, but people do, and what brings them together in the first place is a shared interest, evolved out of living their daily life at work, school, gym, bars, conferences and even the place of worship, indeed, that is what connects them. As a Pluralist, I am blessed

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Yair Netanyahu’s Girlfriend Sandra Leikanger Isn’t Jewish: Israeli Prime Minister’s Son Has Relationship Slammed By Orthodox Leaders

The Orthodoxy in every faith has the same problem! Courtesy Huffington Post By JOSEF FEDERMAN 01/27/14 03:03 PM ET EST JERUSALEM (AP) — The love life of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son is setting off sparks — in Israeli politics.News that 23-year-old Yair Netanyahu is dating a statuesque non-Jewish Norwegian university student was not only

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Starting over with a clean slate

Instead of an open heart quad-pass surgery in Louisville, our Doctors in Dallas decided to do a balloon and a stent. I appreciate my friends Dr. Harbans Lal and Dr. Amer Suleman for pushing and facilitating me to go for the alternate procedure. Thanks to Dr. Taysir Jarrah for the smooth operation, I did not

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Amita Weds Sarah

This is for the first time, a woman has chosen another woman’s name as her last name in a gay-lesbian marriage and this the 2nd most publicized wedding of two Indian women. Both married White women and chose to be the feminine part of the relationship.    Years ago I did some research on the preference of single women in a

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What does it take to have a better relationship

SIX TOXIC RELATIONSHIP HABITSNo matter how much couples argue and fight, their underlying bottom line for the exercise is to improve their relationship, but sometimes they choose the wrong words and make it worse.  Please take the time to do this exercise.  Whether you are married or not, or considering exit-ing from the relationship, the following

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Interfaith Marriages – Religious Double Standards Leave Many Muslims Single

URL – http://interfaithmarriages.blogspot.com/2013/07/interfaith-marriages-religious-double.html Indeed, there are more single Muslim women in the United States than single men. As a pluralist and an interfaith specialist who has conducted many interfaith marriages between people of different faiths, I continue to learn, understand and know the issues, and the more I learn, the more openings pop up, learning is

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Texas Faith: Are Interfaith Marriages Good for Couples?

Texas Faith: Are Interfaith Marriages Good for Couples?Interfaith couples must be admired by one and all. When couples are having difficulty in getting along, they are setting a new standard: respecting the otherness of someone else and accepting the God-given uniqueness of each other. They may have grown up in different religious traditions, but yet,

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Marrying Out of the Faith

Please check out my sermons on any one of the weddings listed on this blog Courtesy of New York Times: By STANLEY FISH Back in 1963, my brother Ron was going out with (that was the phrase then) an Irish Catholic girl named Ann who was attending the University of Rhode Island. One day, she

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