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Homeless Man Dies

Posted in Life on April 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Svend’s posting of this proves the point of my last post. We can stand together in recognizing that this is shamefully horrific. From Akram’s Razor: God rest this noble man’s soul. Homeless man bleeds to death while people walk by – chicagotribune.com Homeless man Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax, 31, a Guatemalan immigrant, collapsed on a New York street [...]

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What We Would Have Missed

Posted in Life on April 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Too often we focus on what separates us from other people. Muslims believe this and we don’t. Christians believe this and we don’t. It is important to know what makes us different, but I hope we never let the things that make us different blind us from the things that bring us together. We both [...]

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Disability Is Grace?

Posted in Grace, Life on April 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »

When I look at little Paul Knight in this video I feel like I see a glimpse of God himself. If he was your son would you say he is grace – an undeserved gift from God? His father does. I agree. Check out The Works of God where his dad John blogs about God’s [...]

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Goat farming, with an Islamic touch

Posted in Muslims, Understanding on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Similar to the kosher diet of Jews, Muslims also have strict dietary laws about what they can and cannot eat. Meat must be halal and this means that when it is slaughtered it must be killed in the name of Allah. It is easy to find halal meat in the Middle East. In the US [...]

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I Hate This Too

Posted in Christians, Fear, Muslims, Understanding on April 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »

A church in St Cloud, MN recently put an ad in the paper highlighting the dangers of Islam in America (click on the ad to read the whole thing). I think they misrepresent Jesus Christ in two major ways. First, they appeal to our fears by making gross misstatements about Muslims. They say, “How do [...]

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‘Among the Righteous:’ Arabs Saving Jews in the Holocaust | The Middle East Channel

Posted in Arabs, Life on April 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

From Mind, Body, Soul: ‘Among the Righteous:’ Arabs Saving Jews in the Holocaust | The Middle East Channel “Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust in Arab lands,” is a new documentary I made in partnership with MacNeil-Lehrer Productions, airing tonight on PBS. It retells largely forgotten stories from World War II in North [...]

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Peace Needs Confession

Posted in Peace, Repentance, Sin on April 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been reading Covenant of Peace: The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics by William Swartley. I will blog more about it in coming weeks, but for now I will post this quote, which addresses the need for repentance in peace. Peace involves restoration of relationship, possible only when misdeeds are duly acknowledged. [...]

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Easter in Damascus

Posted in Christians on April 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Syria News Wire posts some Easter pictures in Damascus (yes, there are Christians in Damascus – they’ve been there since the time of Ananias). The photos are from John Wreford. You can see a lot more photos from the Middle East at his site.

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God’s Wonderful Surprise

Posted in Bible, Glory, Jesus Christ on April 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Jesus Storybook Bible for kids is one of the best children’s Bibles we’ve read. We love the subtitle: Every Story Whispers His Name. Understanding that the whole Bible speaks about and points to Jesus Christ is crucial if we are going to understand what the message of the Bible is. Here is a video [...]

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Evidence of the Resurrection

Posted in Bible, Jesus Christ on April 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »

From the Crossway blog: Excerpt modified from chapter 9 of Doctrine (Read the full chapter). Without the resurrection, the few billion people today who worship Jesus as God are gullible; their hope for a resurrection life after this life is the hope of silly fools who trust in a dead man to give them life. [...]

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