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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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24 August 2013

A Revolution in Jeopardy (3)

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A pro-Morsi demo two days after the coup; the poster of Morsi reads, “Yes to legitimacy”
Robert Fisk, veteran correspondent and skilled raconteur of the region’s ongoing sagas, said it best on the day when the Egyptian army mowed down over 600 mostly peaceful pro-Morsi demonstrators:   “The Egyptian crucible has broken. The 'unity' of Egypt – that all-embracing, patriotic, essential glue that has bound the nation together since the overthrow of the monarchy in 1952…
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02 August 2013

A Revolution in Jeopardy (2)

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Picture taken by blog author, Assistant Professor Sarah Eltantawi, who spent a whole day in late July 2013 in Tahrir Square interviewing pro-Sisi supporters.
In my first blog I wrote about the different parties to Egypt’s current political crisis in the aftermath of the military coup that deposed President Morsi. I also tried to provide historical background to make better sense of the present dynamics. This crisis has generated so much commentary on all sides that I decided to write three blogs on the…
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21 July 2013

A Revolution in Jeopardy (1)

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No caption, but from a blog, “From rebellion to coup: Egypt ahead of a difficult transition” – the boy’s sign reads, “Get out!” or “Step down!” (addressed to President Morsi)
In the run-up to the “June 30th Rebellion” I was already reading everything I could get my eyes on. Then in the aftermath of the military coup that toppled President Morsi on July 3rd, I read even more voraciously. By then, our son and his group of students had been in a poor Christian neighborhood of Cairo for a week…
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29 June 2013

God's Glory in the New Testament

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“Look at the sky...what do you see - I can see Clouds that are ready to burst …”
There are times in the history of God’s dealing with humanity when the wall between the human world of time and space and the invisible, supernatural world of God and angels becomes paper-thin. That’s when angels appear. Think of Jacob’s dream of a ladder connecting heaven and earth with angels walking up and down. God, at the top of the…
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