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Humantrustees.org aims to foster understanding and cooperation between Muslims and Christians so as to empower them to live up to their God-given calling as “trustees of the earth.” This Christian initiative seeks to accomplish this goal through scholarship, teaching, news commentary, and networking between scholars, members of both communities, and with anyone else who is passionate about peace and human flourishing.
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21 July 2013

A Revolution in Jeopardy (1)

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No caption, but from a blog, “From rebellion to coup: Egypt ahead of a difficult transition” – the boy’s sign reads, “Get out!” or “Step down!” (addressed to President Morsi)
In the run-up to the “June 30th Rebellion” I was already reading everything I could get my eyes on. Then in the aftermath of the military coup that toppled President Morsi on July 3rd, I read even more voraciously. By then, our son and his group of students had been in a poor Christian neighborhood of Cairo for a week…
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29 June 2013

God's Glory in the New Testament

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“Look at the sky...what do you see - I can see Clouds that are ready to burst …”
There are times in the history of God’s dealing with humanity when the wall between the human world of time and space and the invisible, supernatural world of God and angels becomes paper-thin. That’s when angels appear. Think of Jacob’s dream of a ladder connecting heaven and earth with angels walking up and down. God, at the top of the…
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21 June 2013

God's Glory in the Hebrew Bible

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“Shekinah Glory,” an artistic rendition of the Ark of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies
I find it fascinating that God’s glory in both Qur’an and Bible revolves around Moses and his prophetic role at Mount Sinai – except that, as we will now see, this theme thoroughly permeates the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament – I’m hoping Jews will enter this dialog as well!). As we learned from the Ayatollah Khomeini in the first…
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14 June 2013

God's Glory in the Qur'an

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Moses on Mount Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments
Here I begin a three-part comparative look at the theme of God’s glory in the Qur’an and the Bible. I haven’t seen this done before, but the idea came to me recently as I was meditating on II Corinthians 5. God as light is a central concept in both traditions and extending this metaphor to God’s glory will enable us…
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