Converts to Islam

Crystal, now Amena, went through a long period of questioning the teachings of various religions. After growing up Amish, she turned to Paganism to fill the spiritual void, and for 17 years called herself a non-practicing Pagan. She tells her amazing story after converting from Christianity to Islam. “I initially left Christianity because it just didn’t make sense,” she says. …

I was born in a small village in the north of England in 1986. By faith, my mother is a Roman Catholic and my Father is from the Church of England, yet both of them were not really practicing their named religions, and do not these days either. I suppose those were just categories for the sake of when someone …

It was during the fall festival called “The Feast of the Hunter’s Moon” that I met a Muslim for the first time in my life. Meeting people from abroad was not common for folks living in small all white farming communities in Indiana in the 80’s but after I started university, I met people of color and students from everywhere. …