Interfaith Marriages

Muslim Sisters: Don’t Let Faith Stop You From Getting Married

By Shahla Khan Salter Recently, Junaid Jahangir wrote a blog arguing that Muslim women can marry outside the faith. Junaid quoted 10 modern-day authorities and mentioned that Universalist Muslims and a few other organizations who are seated outside the traditional Islamic establishment, serve the Muslim community by connecting interfaith couples, who consist of Muslim women […]

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The Emotional Challenges of Interfaith Marriage

There is a rapid rate of intermarriage among people of different faiths in the United States. Estimates are that 50 percent of Jewish men and womenintermarry. Several articles about the Catholic Church have pointed out that many young people have left the Church and have intermarried. These facts are indicative of the high degree of

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Finding common ground: 3 couples making interfaith marriages work

Can a woman who was born a Hindu and a man who was raised a Christian find happiness as a married couple? They can if they’re the former Jaya Sharma and Jacob McGarry. The two, who married two years ago with a Hindu ceremony in the morning and a Christian ceremony in the afternoon, even

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Marriages in America

No matter what faith, culture or planet you come from, you become a part of the overall indefinable American culture, America does it to everyone! I was in a wedding yesterday, a whole bunch of us on our table were talking about the traditional Muslim culture morphing into the American Culture.  Bride’s uncles and aunties

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10 Tips for Intercultural & Interfaith Weddings – Communication, Compromise & Culture

Twenty-two years ago my husband John and I married with two ceremonies: a December Methodist Blessing ceremony in his hometown and an Episcopal wedding ceremony five months later in Austin, Texas. Did our personalized interfaith wedding raise some eyebrows in my traditional Catholic family? Certainly. Did we enjoy our tailored celebrations and ceremonies? Absolutely. Today,

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