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"This book is a must read for individuals who seek to be ""collaborators with the Holy"" in the quest for peace. --Marianne Williamson, best-selling author of Return to Love It is the responsibility of all people with an aspiration to spiritual perfection to help develop a deep recognition of the value of other faiths. --His Holiness The Dalai Lama. With the religious and culture conflicts now raging across the globe, there is nothing more important than initiatives like Ruth Broyde Sharone's MINEFIELDS & MIRACLES. --Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University Readers will connect instantly with this open-hearted, often touching, occasionally hilarious, and always disarmingly personal account . . over a long and colorful lifetime. --Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prize winning author of God A Biography I deeply thank Ruth for sharing her inspiring stores of bridge-building around the world. --Eboo Patel, Founder & President, Interfaith Youth Core and author of Acts of Faith She has gone forth to engage others in the liberation of their essential humaneness from the enmity, suspicion, fear, and ignorance that hold it in captivity. --Rabbi Leonard Beerman, Rabbi Emeritus of Leo S. Beck Temple . . .one of the most honest and sincere undertakings in the 21st century on interfaith work. . . --Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Director: Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Center, Manhattan College, NY I have been involved in interfaith work for more than 30 years, but I have never encountered an interfaith testimonial with the depth and breadth of this one. Ruth Broyde Sharone's Minefields and Miracles should be required reading for anyone who is serious about interfaith dialogue. -- Paul McKenna, Creator of Golden Rule Poster, Scarboro Mission (Toronto, CAN) . . .a page turner, a compelling, fearless quest to reach across the toughest interreligious boundaries to develop peaceful friendships. Ruth is a master storyteller, traversing the world, making films, weaving webs of connection and inspiring us to do the same. . . Read her book. --Paul Chaffee, Editor, The Interfaith Observer"

This book is a must read for individuals who seek to be collaborators with the Holy in the quest for peace. --Marianne Williamson, best-selling author of Return to Love It is the responsibility of all people with an aspiration to spiritual perfection to help develop a deep recognition of the value of other faiths. --His Holiness The Dalai Lama. With the religious and culture conflicts now raging across the globe, there is nothing more important than initiatives like Ruth Broyde Sharone's MINEFIELDS & MIRACLES. --Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University Readers will connect instantly with this open-hearted, often touching, occasionally hilarious, and always disarmingly personal account . . over a long and colorful lifetime. --Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prize winning author of God A Biography I deeply thank Ruth for sharing her inspiring stores of bridge-building around the world. --Eboo Patel, Founder & President, Interfaith Youth Core and author of Acts of Faith She has gone forth to engage others in the liberation of their essential humaneness from the enmity, suspicion, fear, and ignorance that hold it in captivity. --Rabbi Leonard Beerman, Rabbi Emeritus of Leo S. Beck Temple . . .one of the most honest and sincere undertakings in the 21st century on interfaith work. . . --Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Director: Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Center, Manhattan College, NY I have been involved in interfaith work for more than 30 years, but I have never encountered an interfaith testimonial with the depth and breadth of this one. Ruth Broyde Sharone's Minefields and Miracles should be required reading for anyone who is serious about interfaith dialogue. -- Paul McKenna, Creator of Golden Rule Poster, Scarboro Mission (Toronto, CAN) . . .a page turner, a compelling, fearless quest to reach across the toughest interreligious boundaries to develop peaceful friendships. Ruth is a master storyteller, traversing the world, making films, weaving webs of connection and inspiring us to do the same. . . Read her book. --Paul Chaffee, Editor, The Interfaith Observer

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"A passionate interfaith leader, documentary filmmaker, journalist, and author, honored internationally for her contributions to cultural education, peace and justice, Ruth Broyde Sharone served as Co-Chair of the Southern California Parliament of the World's Religions (SCCPWR) for 10 years. She is an inspirational public speaker and travels frequently to college campuses to present interfaith programs including her award-winning documentary GOD AND ALLAH NEED TO TALK. Her riveting interfaith memoir, MINEFIELDS & MIRACLES: Why God and Allah Need to Talk, is considered ""a primer on interfaith engagement,"" and was endorsed by more than 30 religious leaders including H.H. the Dalai Lama. The memoir won top awards in three literary competitions. She is also a co-author of the 2018 best-selling Amazon book, 21ST CENTURY VOICES: Women Who Influence, Inspire, and Make A Difference. A strong believer in the arts as a powerful vehicle for interfaith engagement, Ruth created THIS IS WHO WE ARE, an interfaith musical celebrating our cultural and religious diversity and produced an album entitled INTERFAITH: The Musical. Invited twice to address UN roundtables in Geneva, Switzerland, Ruth has pioneered interfaith pilgrimages to Egypt, Israel and Turkey. In 1991 she co-founded FESTIVAL OF FREEDOM with an African-American Minister. Participants of diverse religious, racial and ethnic backgrounds were invited to share their faith stories as they retraced the steps of the Exodus, from Egypt to the Sinai to Jerusalem. FESTIVAL OF FREEDOM was highlighted on CNN World News in 1994. Ruth worked on staff of the global Parliament, serving as a Partner Cities Associate in the U.S., Latin America, Australia, and the Middle East. She initiated major interfaith events at the Bangladeshi and Moroccan Embassies in Washington, D.C. and was invited to present her unique interfaith programs in Spain, Mexico, England, and Italy. In 2013 she was inducted into the Martin Luther King Advisory Board at Morehouse College in Atlanta and in 2015 she received a special commendation as an interfaith leader from Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. Ruth was invited to teach a class called Interfaith Activism and Beyond at the Academy of Jewish Religion California (AJRCA), the first course of its kind at the rabbinical seminary. Ruth was also a regular correspondent for The Interfaith Observer, an on-line interfaith monthly, where she published more than 70 articles. Leah Broyde Abrahams is a sociologist by training and a gregarious collector of stories by avocation. After a successful career conducting market research and program evaluation for diverse organizations in both the public and for-profit sectors, Leah now combines her natural affinity for people with the professional interviewing skills she honed as a researcher to help individuals articulate and preserve their family stories. Over the past decade, she has produced more than two dozen memoirs in book or video format for clients in the U.S. and abroad through her publishing company, Mixed Media Memoirs LLC, established in 2004. Leah has always been the ""go-to writer"" for work colleagues, family and friends. Two events stimulated her active interest in personal history. The first was an opportunity to produce a series of oral history ""how-to"" manuals for teachers in grades K-12. The three grade-appropriate manuals were distributed and used by public and private schools in Northeastern Wisconsin, and an archive to store the children's projects was also established by UW-Green Bay. Professional training and experience in interviewing on sensitive topics, volunteer work in the community with people of all backgrounds and cultures and passion for people and photography allow Leah to offer a highly enjoyable experience - and a polished, professional end product - to her clients. Her books have won endorsements from notables such as Mother Teresa, His Highness the Dalai Lama, Pulitzer Prize-winners Joseph J. Ellis and Jack Miles, Emmy-winner videographer Ken Burns, Helen Gurley Brown, Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan magazine. A number of her books have won national recognition and awards. After earning a B.A. in Psychology at Northwestern University, Leah, a Chicago native, completed an M.A. in Medical Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently a co-chair of the Life Story Professionals Northeast and has held leadership positions in a variety of community non-profits and interfaith projects. Leah loves traveling - to clients, to new places, to see the world - and always has a camera on hand to record these experiences. Her fine art and travel photographs have won recognition in international competitions and she has had several one-woman shows."

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