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About Suzanne Sataline

Freelance writer Suzanne Sataline has been writing for newspapers and magazines for 27 years, most recently on the staff of The Wall Street Journal where she wrote about New York City, health care, and national religion issues. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Popular Science, Washingtonian magazine and The Christian Science Monitor, among others.

A Twist of Faiths: Claremont’s Mission to Desegregate Religion

Books from different religious traditions

“Have you seen our prayer room?” Mahmoud Harmoush bolts up a stairway on the campus of Claremont School of Theology, the tails of his navy sports coat flying. He’s a stocky man of 52, quick on his feet, with a beard flecked salt and pepper. On the first day of spring semester, just a few students have returned to the United Methodist graduate school in this Southern California college town. Harmoush, a master’s candidate, had hustled from his home in Temecula—an hour south—to an 8:30 class that morning on interfaith counseling, driven home, and then returned. He was ready to ... Read More