This post is part of a series. In my current class in seminary, IS502: PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY, we read a series of passages where Jesus does miracles that display the restoration of people to society. Those passages include: Jesus Heals a Man with Leprosy (Luke...
In A Muslim View of Christianity: Essays on Dialogue (Faith Meets Faith), Mahmoud Ayoub attempts to initiate, describe and model Muslim/Christian dialogue. These collected lectures are meant as an honest appraisal of the history of Muslim/Christian dialogue, our commonalities, and our differences. While Ayoub seems...
You either love or hate ‘Chick Tracts’ – this documentary is interesting. Imagine this – over 1 Billion of these have been printed, in over 100 languages. Jack Chick may be the most successful cartoonist, in numbers of items sold,…
The Christian Muslim Forum, an interfaith group, has released what it calls Ethical Guidelines for Christian and Muslim Witness in Britain (PDF). Interestingly, some more conservative Christians don’t like a couple of the provisions because they fear that it could…
There is an aphorism which I agree with, which goes like this: In every criticism, even from your most hateful detractors, there is often a grain of truth. This, of course, means that if we are critically reflective, we should pay attention to our critics,...
