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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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04 June 2021

Why Support Fair Trade as Christians?

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“Chocolate has a dark secret: the 1.2 million children that work on cocoa plantations. Many farm workers can’t earn a living wage and forests are being destroyed – even in protected areas. Companies have been promising to address these issues for decades, but little has improved. We urgently need EU regulation to stop these crimes.”
Two nights ago I gave a very short presentation on this topic as part of an hour webinar sponsored by our Fair Trade committee in America’s First Fair Trade Town, Media, Pennsylvania. Let me unpack that statement. Bruce Crowther, a British veterinarian and practicing Quaker, was leading a chapter of Oxfam (an anti-poverty, pro-justice NGO founded in Britain in 1942)…
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14 January 2021

God and Covid-19

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“A simple virus has brought life as we know it to a screeching halt,” James Gallagher, “Covid: Why is the coronavirus such a threat?” (Oct. 22, 2020), BBC.
For over a year now, those of us living on planet Earth have not been able to escape the powerful tentacles of the coronavirus. As of this writing, about 1.9 million people have died from it, just yesterday 4,408 died of it in the US, and with at least one new strain of Covid-19 that is doubly contagious, the pandemic…
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25 November 2020

St. Francis and Egypt's Ruler (2)

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“Despite being a popular artistic way to depict St. Francis and the Sultan, no early accounts of their meeting feature Francis offering to walk through fire to convert al-Kamil”; blog post by Allison Kenny, Feb. 4, 2019
In the first installment, I told the story of how St. Francis of Assisi was able to cross enemy lines in the Fifth Crusade in order to share his faith with Egypt’s ruler, Malik al-Kamil. In fact, the latter graciously received him and his fellow monk, Illuminatio, for three or four days. This sultan was in the habit of meeting…
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03 November 2020

The Imam and the Pope: Remembering the Medina Charter

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“Pope Francis and Ahmed el-Tayeb sign the Document on Human Fraternity” (Vatican Media)
[The author here is Mohamed ‘Arafa, my first guest author. I am only the editor this time. See his short bio at the end.] In February 2019, Pope Francis made an apostolic trip to the Middle East, including a visit to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. There he met with Ahmad el-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University,…
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