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Topic: Mission and Evangelism, Samuel Zwemer
Just over seventy years ago, in December of 1946, Samuel Zwemer addressed the first student missions conference that eventually became Urbana. According to Yale historian Kenneth Scott Latourette, “No one, through all the centuries of Christian mission to the Muslims,…
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Topic: Mission and Evangelism, Samuel Zwemer, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Samuel Zwemer
The Muslim World (TMW) is one of the leading academic journals covering Islam worldwide. Strange it would call its own history “bigoted”. It was founded in 1911 by Samuel Zwemer, a founding father of Protestant missions in engagement with the…
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Topic: Mission and Evangelism, Samuel Zwemer, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Samuel Zwemer, History & Politics, Mission and Evangelism
Cyril of Thessalonica (ca. 826-869) is remembered in mission history for his work among the Slavs and Arab Muslims in Samarra (modern Iraq) as well as Jewish and Muslim Khazars (southern Russia). He responded to the Byzantine emperor’s call to…
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Topic: Mission and Evangelism, Samuel Zwemer, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Samuel Zwemer, History & Politics, Mission and Evangelism, American Muslims, Shariah Law
Before covering the various Muslim attitudes toward Sharia and Islamic law, a distinction needs to be made between those two concepts. There is considerable confusion about them which has contributed to interesting legal steps taken within some states in the…
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Topic: Mission and Evangelism, Samuel Zwemer, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Samuel Zwemer, History & Politics, Mission and Evangelism, American Muslims, Shariah Law, Book Review
David W. Shenk. Christian.Muslim.Friend: Twelve Paths to Real Relationship. Harrisonburg, VA: Herald Press, 2014. Christian.Muslim.Friend is a new work from David Shenk, a Mennonite missionary who has served in Somalia, Kenya, the USA, and continually engages in peaceful dialogue with…
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Topic: Mission and Evangelism, Samuel Zwemer, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Samuel Zwemer, History & Politics, Mission and Evangelism, American Muslims, Shariah Law, Book Review, History & Politics
An event took place on November 20, 1979, that most people have either forgotten, or never heard about in the first place. Islam’s most holy place, the Grand Mosque in Mecca, was seized by unknown gunmen. It was Day One…
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Topic: Mission and Evangelism, Samuel Zwemer, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Samuel Zwemer, History & Politics, Mission and Evangelism, American Muslims, Shariah Law, Book Review, History & Politics, Mission and Evangelism
I have just returned from an amazing conference in the far East! There were approximately 1000 people present, and though some were still in university, most were holding down jobs in well-respected careers. Caucasians, like myself, were rare. Some pastors…
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Topic: Mission and Evangelism, Samuel Zwemer, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Samuel Zwemer, History & Politics, Mission and Evangelism, American Muslims, Shariah Law, Book Review, History & Politics, Mission and Evangelism, Mission and Evangelism, Refugees
The global refugee crisis reached a peak this year, and is still climbing. At this time in human history there are more refugees and displaced people than at any other time on planet earth. 65.3 million or 1/113 human beings…
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Topic: Mission and Evangelism, Samuel Zwemer, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Samuel Zwemer, History & Politics, Mission and Evangelism, American Muslims, Shariah Law, Book Review, History & Politics, Mission and Evangelism, Mission and Evangelism, Refugees, Faith & Practice, Folk Islam
The 2016 hajj (pilgrimage) has just ended, and it was a very public event indeed, watched on television by millions of people all over the world. As the last of five pillars, the Qur’an says the religion has now been…
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Topic: Mission and Evangelism, Samuel Zwemer, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Samuel Zwemer, History & Politics, Mission and Evangelism, American Muslims, Shariah Law, Book Review, History & Politics, Mission and Evangelism, Mission and Evangelism, Refugees, Faith & Practice, Folk Islam, Europe, Muslim Women
Photographs of armed, male police officers forcing a Muslim woman to remove her over-garment on a public, French beach are currently trending on social media. The woman was told to remove her long sleeve top (revealing a tank top underneath)…
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Topic: Mission and Evangelism, Samuel Zwemer, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Samuel Zwemer, History & Politics, Mission and Evangelism, American Muslims, Shariah Law, Book Review, History & Politics, Mission and Evangelism, Mission and Evangelism, Refugees, Faith & Practice, Folk Islam, Europe, Muslim Women, Faith & Practice, Spirituality & Philosophy
I have been a professional philosopher for about 30 years, which means that for 30 years I have spent my life answering two major questions: “What does a philosopher do?” “Why would anyone want to do that?” Both are good…
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Topic: Mission and Evangelism, Samuel Zwemer, Book Review, Comparative Religion, Samuel Zwemer, History & Politics, Mission and Evangelism, American Muslims, Shariah Law, Book Review, History & Politics, Mission and Evangelism, Mission and Evangelism, Refugees, Faith & Practice, Folk Islam, Europe, Muslim Women, Faith & Practice, Spirituality & Philosophy, Middle East, Shariah Law
If sharia law is for Muslims, what is its place in a Muslim-majority nation? If the answer seems obvious, that may be part of the problem. But another part is understanding sharia law in the first place, and in a…
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The Unseen Reality: A Panoramic View of Spiritual Warfare
