Article February 18, 2008 Issue

THE GOD THAT UNITES US

Excerpts from a roundtable discussion moderated by Kim Shippey in the Sentinel Radio studios.

Kim Shippey with contributions from SHAREDA HOSEIN, RABBI DANIEL LIBEN, ELAINE FOLLIS

Participants: SHAREDA HOSEIN, Muslim chaplain at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, who is a reservist in the US Army. (She joined our panel on the phone from Florida.) RABBI DANIEL LIBEN, of Temple Israel of Natick, Massachusetts. And ELAINE FOLLIS, President of The Mary Baker Eddy Library, and Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at Prinipia College.

Kim Shippey: Let's begin with some general thoughts on this topic from your individual faith perspectives.

Shareda Hosein: The word Islam means to submit, to surrender to God. For me, from a Muslim perspective, we're told that man was created in a natural way to know God, to know what's right and wrong, and to have a love for our neighbors, for our fellow man. When one goes against that naturalness—the natural way of the Creator—it feels like there's chaos.

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