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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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10 August 2025

Jimmy Carter and Israeli Apartheid (4)

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Sadat, Carter, and Begin, 1978. In the closing hour of its virtual national conference Monday, the pro-Israel, pro-peace advocacy organization J Street presented its Tzedek v’Shalom, or Justice and Peace Award to former President Jimmy Carter. Accepting on behalf of the 96-year-old Carter was Paige Alexander, CEO of The Carter Center, based in Atlanta.
Most would have predicted that the first American president to call himself “born again” (hence, evangelical Protestant) would be a staunch defender of the state of Israel. As you will remember from my first post in this series, a large majority of evangelicals are “Christian Zionists,” and therefore unsympathetic to any call for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.…
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04 August 2025

The Vicious Cycle of Abuse: Israel as a Case Study

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The Flour March. Thousands of Israelis marched in Tel Aviv on July 23, 2025, to call for a resumption of humanitarian aid to Gaza. It was dubbed, “The Four March.” Mohammed Mohisen, “Jaffa, ‘Tel Aviv,’ rose up while Cairo, Amman, Baghdad, Tunis, the Gulf capitals, and the West Bank stayed silent.”
In this third installment in my series on Israel/Palestine, I advance a bold hypothesis, one which cannot possibly be defended on scientific grounds. But I do so on the basis of my personal experience in Israel-Palestine from 1992-1996 and several visits since then, including a five-week research stay in 1999 (in Bethlehem and Hebron). I’ve also read a good deal…
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28 July 2025

Fighting for Peace: Human Rights and International Law

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“This is an orphaned child. His father was killed while trying to get aid. His mother, too just days ago. Now, he suffers from severe malnutrition, his tiny body bearing the weight of a war he never chose.”
After two cataclysmic world wars, over fifty nations gathered in San Francisco in April 1945 to create a new international organization, known as “the United Nations.” After two months of hard work, the UN Charter was written, which specifically called for the formation of three main bodies: a General Assembly, a Security Council, and an Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).…
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10 July 2025

Palestinian Erasure since the Nineteenth Century

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“A Jerusalem street in 1900. Image: rare historical photos.com.”
My last blog post dates back to February 2024—over 16 months ago. I had put off long enough serious work on my latest book project, The City Where All May Flourish: The Holy Spirit in Mission and Global Governance. That manuscript was accepted for inclusion in a Brill Publishing series, “Theology and Mission in Global Christianity,” and the review process…
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