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Topic: Dialogue, Mission and Evangelism
Rick Love’s life and legacy resonate deeply with the Zwemer Center of Muslim-Christian Relations at Columbia International University. As Ed Smither, Dean of Intercultural Studies at CIU, put it: “Rick loved Muslims and they loved him.” Yet, beyond his work…
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Topic: Dialogue, Mission and Evangelism, Faith & Practice, Radicalism
Few questions regarding Islam are as salient to current events and public discourse as the relationship between Islam and violence, and few questions are as polarizing. Outsiders looking into the house of Islam have reached conflicting conclusions, with American Presidents…
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Topic: Dialogue, Mission and Evangelism, Faith & Practice, Radicalism, Quran & Hadith
The Muslim view of heaven comes from the Qur’an’s focus on luxury, leisure, and sensual pleasures. But the vision is distinctly religious and allows for no perversion whatsoever—at least, not as defined by the Qur’an. Many non-Muslims picture the qur’anic…
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Topic: Dialogue, Mission and Evangelism, Faith & Practice, Radicalism, Quran & Hadith, Samuel Zwemer
Despite winning only a handful of converts, Samuel Zwemer was the greatest missionary the United States has ever sent to the Muslim world. Of him, the historian Kenneth Latourette said, “No one is more deserving of the title, ‘Apostle to…
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Topic: Dialogue, Mission and Evangelism, Faith & Practice, Radicalism, Quran & Hadith, Samuel Zwemer, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine
Is there another approach to Christian Zionism? The promises given to Abraham and all the prophecies in the OT have to be interpreted in the light of the coming of the kingdom of God in Jesus. The OT must therefore…
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Topic: Dialogue, Mission and Evangelism, Faith & Practice, Radicalism, Quran & Hadith, Samuel Zwemer, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine, Book Review
Book Review: Margins of Islam: Ministry in Diverse Muslim Contexts (2018), edited by Gene Daniels and Warrick Farah and published by William Carey Publishing. Reviewed by Warren Larson, Senior Research Fellow and Professor, Zwemer Center for Muslim Studies, Columbia International…
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Topic: Dialogue, Mission and Evangelism, Faith & Practice, Radicalism, Quran & Hadith, Samuel Zwemer, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine, Book Review, Israel and Palestine
Zionism is a very obvious example of religion bound up with politics. The majority of the early Zionists at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries were secular Jews, while the majority of orthodox Jews opposed…
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Topic: Dialogue, Mission and Evangelism, Faith & Practice, Radicalism, Quran & Hadith, Samuel Zwemer, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine, Book Review, Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Middle East
There has been a dramatic decline in the number of Christians in the Middle East and they face some difficult dilemmas. At the time of the Islamic Conquests in the 7th century, a few thousand Muslim Arabs were ruling over…
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Topic: Dialogue, Mission and Evangelism, Faith & Practice, Radicalism, Quran & Hadith, Samuel Zwemer, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine, Book Review, Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Middle East, Eschatology, Theology & Law
Islamic eschatology considers Jesus Christ one of the most important figures in end times theology, also known as the Day of Judgement.¹ In fact, Jesus is connected with eight of the fifty signs mentioned in the previous article. In fact,…
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Topic: Dialogue, Mission and Evangelism, Faith & Practice, Radicalism, Quran & Hadith, Samuel Zwemer, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine, Book Review, Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Middle East, Eschatology, Theology & Law, Dialogue, Education & Society
By now, everyone has heard of the shootings at the two mosques of Al Noor and Linwood in Christchurch, New Zealand, that led to the deaths of 50 Muslims and the wounding of 50 others at prayer on Friday the 15th of March…
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Topic: Dialogue, Mission and Evangelism, Faith & Practice, Radicalism, Quran & Hadith, Samuel Zwemer, History & Politics, Israel and Palestine, Book Review, Israel and Palestine, History & Politics, Middle East, Eschatology, Theology & Law, Dialogue, Education & Society, Dialogue, Radicalism
Images of what a 24-year-old, white male did at a mosque in Christchurch, reminded me of something: “We have seen the face of evil and it is us.” I also recalled a similar incident much closer to home. It happened…
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The Unseen Reality: A Panoramic View of Spiritual Warfare
