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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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20 August 2018

Muhammad's Raids and Expeditions

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"For Muslims, the Battle of Badr was a major event in which the Muslims defeated a powerful Quraysh army against all odds after being driven out from their homes in Makkah following economic sanctions and persecution." (ilmfeed.com is a UK-based Muslim website)
As my writings attest, I believe strongly in countering today’s rampant Islamophobia (and not just in the “West”). At the same time, I believe that interfaith dialog entails a mutual commitment to finding truth. This includes, at the right time and place, discussions about difficult and tense topics. No topic is more fraught with fear and rancor than that of…
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08 August 2018

Abrahamic Faiths and Just Peacemaking

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“SILICON VALLEY, California — On Sunday, May 6, 2018, more than sixty Jews, Christians and Muslims united in Sunnyvale at BayCC Muslim community center to prepare a hot meal for the homeless and hungry of Silicon Valley.”
I was finally able to finish the revised draft of my translation of Ghanouchi’s book in June and in July I completed the changes to my book, Justice and Love: A Muslim-Christian Conversation. The Equinox Publishing owner and chief editor told me she was delighted I got this done after an almost three-year hiatus and would work on getting an…
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12 July 2018

Rising Tides: Urgency Needed!

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“October 2016 King Tide Swallows Parts of South Florida,” (Oct. 17, 2016). An October 15 full moon and swells from Hurricane Nicole made for an extraordinary king tide over the weekend. Reporter Jess Swanson captured these images in Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood as residents explored their flooded communities.
Scott Pruitt, who until last week was President Trump’s Environmental Agency (EPA) Administrator, resigned amidst numerous ethics scandals. Yet he was ruthlessly effective in carrying his boss’s mandate to dismantle as many Obama-era regulations as possible. His deputy Andrew Wheeler, now the acting head of the EPA, will no doubt continue where he left off. Of course, this was predictable.…
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26 June 2018

Charles Malik, the UN, and Human Rights

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No caption, the photo is one of several embedded in “Remembering Charles Malik,” by Joe Hoover, on the beginning weeks of what was called then the “Arab Spring”; it also contains a 10-min. filmed interview from 1953 with Charles Malik.
The media was abuzz this last week with the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and its resulting wrenching of children from their parents’ arms. He finally reversed course, but the damage internationally was done. UN high commissioner for human rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein put it this way , “The thought that any state would seek to deter parents by…
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  • Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love
    Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love

    This book is now published and available as an ebook. Unfortunately, with the current COVID-19 pandemic, the publisher cannot send out the actual physical books. Read a summary for each of the 6 chapters and buy it on the publisher's page. Here's the abstract, or précis:

     

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  • Earth, Empire and Sacred Text
    Earth, Empire and Sacred Text

    This book seeks to construct a Muslim-Christian theological discourse on creation and humanity, which could help adherents of both faiths work together to preserve our planet, bring justice to its most needy inhabitants and contribute to peacebuilding in areas of conflict. For more information or to purchase (now also in paperback!)

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