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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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27 February 2013

Justice and Liberal Democracies

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Agnes Heller, Hungarian-American philosopher, Hannah Arendt Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at the New School for Social Research, New York.
This may seem like a boring title, but it speaks directly to the instability, turmoil and even violence that flagship states Tunisia and Egypt are experiencing two years after their “revolutions.” Mounting distrust between the two islamist regimes and their secular opposition parties has so widened this decades-long divide that it now threatens the very survival of their democratic institutions.…
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31 January 2013

Religion and Patriarchy (3)

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Students shout slogans during a protest against a leader of the ruling Congress party, who was arrested on accusations he raped a woman in a village in the early hours of the morning, in Gauhati, India, Thursday, Jan. 3. Recent post-rape protests have renewed debate over the rise of a new urban middle-class activism in India.
In Iraq and Afghanistan, women in the US military have often been in combat roles, a little-known fact until this past week when gender equality in the line of fire became official Pentagon policy. Staff Sgt. Keesha Dentino, an explosives-dog handler for the famous Old Guard infantry regiment at Fort Myers, in an interview with the Washington Post said she…
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17 January 2013

Muslim-Christian Dialog, Baghdad and Singapore

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Cover picture for Sidney H. Griffith’s book, The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam (Princeton University Press, 2007). Bishop Theodore Abu Qurra is pictured in his famous dialog with the Caliph al-Ma’mun.
Two things just happened that will come together in this blog. First, I came back from Singapore, where I lectured on the theme of justice from a secular, Christian and Muslim perspective. This was for Pathways for Mutual Understanding’s first Institute in Asia. Second, my review of David Bertaina’s 2011 book, Christian and Muslim Dialogues: The Religious Uses of a…
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25 December 2012

Christmas, Human Dignity and Solidarity

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graffiti on Bethlehem's wall in 2010
A wonderful Christmas to all of you around the world, to Christians and Muslims, especially! Last year I emphasized how much Christians and Muslims have in common as they celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, or Isa bnu Maryam, the great prophet the Qur’an honors as “Jesus, son of Mary.” Haroon Moghul has left us this Christmas with a wonderful…
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