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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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30 November 2018

Fighting the “Commodification of the Commons” (2)

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“In this Dec. 2, 2017, photo, a supporter of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments wears a colorful headdress during a rally against President Trump's reduction of two National Monuments in Salt Lake City. President Donald Trump's rare move to shrink two large national monuments in Utah triggered another round of outrage among Native American leaders who vowed to unite and take the fight to court to preserve protections for lands they consider sacred.” (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
On the cover of the November 2018 issue of National Geographic is a rancher on his horse illuminated by a setting sun against the backdrop of dark clouds. Speaking of the Bears Ears landscape, he says, “It’s a diverse, iconic, some say a spiritual landscape.” The two cover articles come under the rubrick, “Battle for the American West.” The first…
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15 November 2018

Fighting the "Commodification of the Commons"

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Hiking in Denali National Park and Preserve
I begin here a two-part blog post that revisits a theme I raised in Earth, Empire and Sacred Text: the strong propensity since at least the 1970s of those with power, be they multinational corporations, rich individuals, or some governments, to privatize goods that should belong to the wider public, or the “common good.” I want to end up next…
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09 September 2018

Ending Hunger

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“What the latest food security report revealed about children in rural America. One in four children is food insecure.” (2014)
Amazingly, the goal of halving the number of undernourished people worldwide was just about reached hrough the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs, 2000-2015). UN chief Ban Ki-moon declared at the end of that process, “The MDGs helped to lift more than one billion people out of extreme poverty, to make inroads against hunger, to enable more girls to attend school than…
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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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