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The Importance of Affirmation in Disagreement

Posted in Christians, Contentious Issues, Life, Muslims, Understanding on January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I am pro-life. I believe life begins at conception and that all life is valuable in the sight of God. I am also pro-pro-choice. I believe people who are pro-choice are created in the image of God and worthy of respect as those whom God loves, even if we don’t agree. I am also pro-Muslim. [...]

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Bias in the News

Posted in Understanding on April 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Fox News is too conservative. CNN is too liberal. Al Jazeera is too . . . ? Interestingly, a new study shows that American viewers believe Al Jazeera English is unbiased, that is, when the Al Jazeera logo is replaced by CNN’s logo. So much of what we believe is conditioned by biases and presuppositions [...]

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A Meetup Group for Christians and Muslims

Posted in Christians, Muslims, Peace, Understanding on December 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

From Unity: Bismillah. Received today from rom Imtiaz Wajih: — I am a 49 year old Muslim living in London. I thought it might be a good idea to set up a Meetup group to focus on the shared ground between Christians and Muslims. We would be delighted if you could join us (even if [...]

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A Good Muslim Magazine?

Posted in Islam, Understanding on November 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Today I was reading Svend White’s post “Educating the Disabled” about an article he read in Christianity Today. Svend is a Muslim. He reads Christianity Today. I don’t know if Svend reads this regularly, but I realized that I certainly don’t regularly read any Muslim magazines. I’d like to. So do any of you have [...]

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Not an Encounter, Just Ordinary Neighborliness

Posted in Muslims, Understanding on November 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In response to one woman’s recent experiment of wearing the hijab for one month, Shazia Kamal writes: Going “under cover” as a Muslim to get to know Muslims implies that we are a closed, isolated group of individuals whose experiences cannot be known and understood unless an outsider comes in to examine us. . . Meeting a [...]

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Tips for Peacemaking Tourists

Posted in Peacemaking, Understanding, World on October 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In a post from Visual Peacemakers encouraging photographers visiting other cultures to “wear their shoes” there were some great points for anyone visiting another culture. These six suggestions will go a long way in helping someone gain a better understanding of people different than them, which is a prerequisite for peacemaking. 1. Leave some comforts [...]

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This Is So Good on So Many Levels

Posted in Life, Understanding, World on September 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »

There is a new Muslim comic book superhero coming out soon. His name is Silver Scorpion. With the popularity of The 99 (who have worked with the Justice League), that isn’t so remarkable these days. What is great here is who thought it up. The Open Hands Initiative flew a group of disabled American youth [...]

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My 214th Post

Posted in Jesus Christ, Peace, Understanding on September 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

It may seem a bit arbitrary to highlight my 214th post, but it isn’t. Since I missed my own year anniversary I thought I would use a milestone to look back on my blog a bit and the number 214 stood out to me because of Ephesians 2:14. Speaking of Jesus Christ it says, “For [...]

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Christian Muslim Forum

Posted in Christians, Muslims, Understanding on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I originally posted this last month, but for some reason I am getting lots of spam comments from it so I deleted the original post and am reposting it in the hopes that the spam will stop. I read about a men’s retreat for Muslims and Christians that looked at the life of Abraham in the [...]

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Free “Discover Islam” Web Book

Posted in Books, Islam, Understanding on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Discover Islam is offering a free web book DVD with audios, videos and e-books. Muslims and non-Muslim will find the information in this DVD to be comprehensive and enlightening.  This Web Book DVD will serve as the perfect resource for those in search of information on Islam or just need to expand your knowledge. Related [...]

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