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  1. ayani

    an open letter to Muslims and others on RF

    hey, friends. this is a testimony i had posted in another thread on the same topic. i'm wanting to write this and share this in part to be completely transparent with the Muslim men and women of RF. last year, very suddenly, i converted from Quranic Islam to Christianity. i talked about it and...
  2. ayani

    has anyone seen the film version of Persepolis?

    i read the graphic novels a few yers ago, and loved them. has anyone here seen the (animated) movie that came out about a year ago? did you like it?
  3. ayani

    Neat! (Christianity in Pre-Modern Asia)

    some interesting links i found on the early sowing and growth of Christianity is Asia. i hadn't heard of the Assyrian Church of the East before, but apparently they did a good deal to bring the name of Jesus to China, Korea, Tibet, and Japan long before Catholic or Protestant missionaries got...
  4. ayani

    Disturbing Story from San Diego

    i just heard this news report on the radio yesterday, and i found it very disturbing and bizarre. apparently a Christian couple holding a Bible study in their home has been hassled by the San Diego Police and asked to cease their prayer and study meetings until they get a permit from the city...
  5. ayani

    an LDS quote

    hey, guys. i noticed the following quote on an LDS member's signature space, and remember it coming from an LDS leader. is this true, and who first spoke / wrote it? how do LDS members understand this quote? does this quote form or convey a part of Mormon doctrine / church teaching?
  6. ayani

    Paul, Jesus, and Moasic Law

    a friend on the forums has asked me to set up here a thread wherein folks can discuss and debate the relationship between Christian faith, the Mosaic Law, and to what extent the content and ideas of Paul's epistles have influenced or changed the Christians faith and / or Jesus' message. Jesus...
  7. ayani

    Three Most Influential Religious Texts

    which three religious texts / books have influenced you the most? which have you enjoyed, drawn inspiration from, or treasured, and why? which (if any) changed you life? i have two, only. (i know, that's cheating...) they would have to be the Quran, and the Bible. the Quran i found...
  8. ayani

    Catholicism and Christianity

    hey ~ i was reading the Hans Kung thread, and was interested to see the varying views on him. mentioned was his being a Catholic priest, yet denying or de-emphasizing certain key Catholic teachings (such as papal infallibility) and also denying the wider Christian teaching of the trinity. can...
  9. ayani

    Christians - what is "Christian"?

    i was looking over this article tonight, and got thinking... it seems that hisorically there have been two ways of saying "Christian". something can be Christian becaue it is believed or practiced by people or churches identifying with Jesus Christ, or something can be Christian as in...
  10. ayani

    awesome Christian books

    anyone know of some good Christian books out there? are you reading any? i read Lee Strobel's "The Case for Christ" a few months ago, and loved it. excellent, thoughtful, unique book. read most of "Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life" by Donald Whitney and really liked it. was...
  11. ayani

    Isa al-Masih and Allah

    there is a question i'd like to ask, concerning the Quran's record of the virgin birth, and how Allah and Isa relate to one another. the Quran states, concerning Allah, that "he is one god, Allah the eternal, the uncaused cause of all being. he begets not, and neither is he begotten."...
  12. ayani

    LDS: Marriage and Heaven

    a continuation from a thread in the LDS forum. in essence, how do LDS beliefs about marriage and the afterlife differ from what Christ teaches about marriage and the afterlife? or do they? i asked : so, in light of Jesus' conversation with the Pharisees (in Matthew 22:23-32), from a Mormon...
  13. ayani

    twenty-five!

    a fellow is sitting by a well, behaving oddly. he kind of smiles blithely into the depths of the well murmuring "twenty five, twenty five..." to himself. another man comes along, perplexed by his behaviour. "hey, what are you counting? what's down there? what's twenty five?" the first chap...
  14. ayani

    Sadhu Sundar Singh

    i first heard about this man from my father-in-law, who is from India. i'd never heard of him before... certainly a unique and remarkable Christian, to say the least! Sadhu Sundar Singh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia i find his story beautiful, and very humbling.
  15. ayani

    St. Thomas Christians

    these are a facinating group of people.... the Apostle Thomas, after Christ's ascention, went to India on a mission trip, and won many converts there. included in his audience were local Cochin Jews. the church that grew from this work retained many interesting elements of Judaic worship...
  16. ayani

    Gandhi and Christ

    i would like to post from a small article i read today- i found it really interesting. my neighbor and good friend is a Christian who grew up in India, and was raised Hindu. we talked about Gandhi this morning on the way to work, and i'm interested to know what you all think of this- Christian...
  17. ayani

    issues of faith

    hey guys ~ just kind of wanted to update you here... there is a dear young man i'm involved with, who is a conservative Christian. i love him dearly, and i know he and his family would like very much for me to be a Christian. i do have a number of logical doubts about the Christian faith...
  18. ayani

    conversation with Ali Sina

    salam aleykum. i would like to post a series of e-mail letters i wrote to Ali Sina, the creator of the site faith freedom. Faith Freedom International when i began writing to Mr. Sina, i was seriously doubting Islam, and went to his site to read about his opposition to Islam. in my initial...
  19. ayani

    Turkey In Radical Revision of Islam

    BBC NEWS | Europe | Turkey in radical revision of Islamic texts masha'allah! what do you all think? i am greatly encouraged by this...
  20. ayani

    Jews and Bnei Noach of India

    shalom~ i'm not quite sure where to put this, but i wanted to write something on behalf of the Jewish and Noahide communities of India. recently i have been in touch with a dear, awesome woman from Gujarat, India who is a Bnei Noach, and her family. i have made a video for them and put it...
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