Real & Wonderful Stories-A Brother
With a non-practicing Jewish mother and a non-practicing African-American Baptist father, both Socialists, religion obviously didn't play a role in my upbringing. Briefly exploring both Judaism and Ch...
Real & Wonderful Stories-Yahya Abdul Rahman Smith
I am from New Brunswick, Canada. I was brought up a Christian but did not seriously practice Christianity until I was seventeen. At that age I became very zealous in my faith. About one and a ha...
Real & Wonderful Stories-Themise Cruz
If anyone were to ask me when I became Muslim, the only feasible answer would be that I was born Muslim but just wasn't aware of it. We are all born into a state of Islam, but what is unfortunate is t...
Real & Wonderful Stories-Tena
Both my husband and I converted to Islam. I converted during Ramadhan last year and my husband shortly after. The thing that drew me to Islam was the hijab and loose clothing of Muslim women...
Real & Wonderful Stories-Abdullah Reda
I was raised in a Roman Catholic family in Northern Virginia. I can remember very clearly going to Catholic school, learning about the faith and receiving the sacraments of communion, confession and c...
Real & Wonderful Stories-Suzannah Abu-Suwa
I grew up the typical American girl, born and raised in the U.S. in a middle class family, which was composed of my parents and one younger sister. My father was in military, so we moved around quite...
Real & Wonderful Stories-Khadija
I begin this short account of my steps towards embracing Islam in the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Throughout my life I believed in God but became unsatisfied with the course my life w...
Real & Wonderful Stories-Carol
For as long as I can remember, I had not been satisfied with Christianity. I could never assimilate the belief that Jesus is the “son of God.” I used to think it was a fault in me – that I was...