by Brent Hamoud | Mar 13, 2020 | Opinion
Martin Accad’s SEKAP Spectrum of Christian-Muslim Interactions brings to mind Aristotle’s “golden mean” and offers insights into constructive approaches for interfaith engagement. As I explained previously, his kerygmatic approach could be viewed as the middle, or...
by Brent Hamoud | Mar 12, 2020 | Opinion
People are intuitively innovative, but religion is a realm where innovation can easily lag. Faith convictions have a history of taking lines in the sand and turning them into crevasses in concrete, especially regarding Christian-Muslim relations. Over the years, many...
by ABTS Staff | Feb 20, 2020 | News
The Middle East Consultation (MEC) is organized by the Institute of Middle East Studies (IMES) to help equip participants to respond in prophetic and Christ-like ways to the many challenges facing Christians and Muslims in and beyond the Middle East. It takes place...
by Martin Accad | Jan 23, 2020 | Opinion
The targeted assassination of Qasem Soleimani and of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at Baghdad Airport, authorized by President Donald Trump in the early morning of Jan. 3, officially baptized the new year of 2020 with blood. The elimination of the major general of the Quds...
by Elias Ghazal | Jun 26, 2019 | Opinion
“Love the sinner but hate the sin” is a common Christian cliché that is not biblical. As I noted previously, it has been used to justify inaccurate views of Islam and unjust attitudes and actions toward Muslims. I find some similarity between the attitude of...