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July 23, 2019
Two reviews of mine are now available in Cultural Encounters, and both relate to one of the most pressing issues and challenges facing American evangelicals today.
The first is a review of Matthew Kaemingk's book Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of...
May 31, 2019
How would you respond if an Arab stranger offered you a free trip to Egypt? That's exactly what a social entrepreneur has done in a heart-changing experiment.
Many Americans remain jittery about the possibility of terrorism in our post-9/11 world. Anti-Muslim sentimen...
May 17, 2019
When evangelicals are faced with perceived threats we tend to double down on doctrine, a significant aspect of our identity and boundaries. Two incidents related to Islam clearly illustrate this.
In a previous post I've explored integrated threat theory (ITT) in relatio...
March 21, 2019
There has been a lot of commentary by Christians and Muslims in response to the White supremacist terrorist attack against two Muslim mosques in New Zealand. For a sample of a good collection by evangelicals see those at Christianity Today. I wanted to add my own thoug...
November 8, 2018
In August 2017 I participated in a consultation on evangelicals and Islamophobia held at Calvin Theological Seminary. One of the outcomes of that gathering was a collection of articles addressing various facets of evangelical encounters with Muslims that can be found a...
October 10, 2018
The Multi-faith Matters grant project team met in August and discussed the results of the first year's worth of research, and I've been meaning to share a summary of this in a video, but I've had ongoing technical issues, first with video editing software, and then wit...
August 8, 2018
Next week the Multi-faith Matters Collaborative Inquiry Team will meet in Sacramento to discuss the first year of our two-year supplemental grant. This will include discussion of the findings from the psychological survey we conducted to try to understand what is under...
August 29, 2017
I recently returned from a consultation at Calvin Theological Seminary and thought I'd share some summary reflections.
I've been to a number of conferences over the years, and some have been better than others, but this is one meeting that exceeded my expectations. The...
July 11, 2017
My research going into the second phase of our grant keeps taking interesting turns. The latest dovetails with both the conceptual metaphor and storytelling parts of our grant research. The background question is trying to determine what influences shape evangelical un...
July 23, 2019
