Reflections of a Convert on Black America, Family, Community, and The Comforts of Islam

Interview By: Melissa Barreto Candice Elam's Journey to Islam Candice Elam, DNP, FNP-C, accepted Islam 19 years ago. Like many converts, her choice meant practicing a new religion, navigating changing family dynamics, and learning how to maintain her own identity in the wider, and often ethnocentric, Muslim communities. This [...]

2025-02-06T09:27:03+00:00February 4th, 2025|African Americans, Converts|

Coming to Islam: Stephanie

Habeeba Husain Growing up in a nonreligious household, Stephanie never thought twice about Islam. She had no connection to it. If anything, she considered herself opposed to what she thought she knew of the religion. “If you grow up in an Agnostic, Atheist, or non-practicing background, sometimes the [...]

2025-01-23T13:10:18+00:00January 23rd, 2025|Converts|

My uncle, the Catholic priest, is one of my biggest supporters

Laura El Alam There are many sad, true stories of converts’ families rejecting or denouncing them because of their choice to follow Islam. Oftentimes, family members who are deeply religious are the ones who struggle most with accepting their loved one’s conversion. That is not always the case, [...]

2025-01-23T13:13:17+00:00January 23rd, 2025|Converts, Family|

When your husband is a “born-again” Muslim: Marrying a Muslim man who recommits to his faith

Laura El Alam   Over the years. I’ve talked with dozens of fellow female converts to Islam, and a surprising number of them share a common narrative: they had met their husbands when they were young, often as university students. Back then, the men weren’t practicing their faith [...]

2025-01-23T13:16:42+00:00January 23rd, 2025|Converts|

Why Islam?

By Dr Laurence Brown Why Islam is Often the Last Religion Non-Muslims Explore Let’s talk frankly. Almost never do non-Muslims study Islam until they have first exhausted the religions of their exposure. Only after they have grown dissatisfied with the religions familiar to them, meaning Judaism, Christianity and all [...]

2025-01-22T21:18:09+00:00January 22nd, 2025|Islam and Other Faiths, Spiritual Journeys|

Islam: A Religion of Answers

When many people think of religion, they imagine a realm of blind faith, shrouded in mysteries that demand unwavering belief without question. However, what many often are unaware of is that Islam is unique because it actively encourages intellectual curiosity and rational inquiry. The very first word revealed in [...]

2024-05-01T16:40:19+00:00May 1st, 2024|Islam|
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