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Meaningful Interfaith Engagement – The Personal Challenge
Dave Andrews Meaningful interfaith engagement is a personal issue – it begins with us! Leo Tolstoy, the noted author of War and Peace, once lamented, ‘Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself’. Unfortunately, for Leo Tolstoy’s family, for much of the time, that included Leo Tolstoy ‘himself’.[i] Fortunately for us, however, […]
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Dave Andrews Depending on our understanding, our religions can be either a source of escalating conflict, or a resource for overcoming conflict If we construct our religion as a closed set of beliefs and behaviours, we will identify ourselves against others and it will often lead to violence. Jonathan Sacks, in his latest book Not In […]
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Dave Andrews On my tour of the US I was able to share the message of The Jihad Of Jesus with up to a couple of thousand people: in Muslim groups – at the Conference of Islamic Organization of North America, the Islamic Center in Boston and the Apex Mosque in Raleigh; in Christian […]
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Dave Andrews Benjamin Meyers says ‘When Abbott advocate(s) simplistic policies – closing borders, turning back asylum seekers, constructing camps – one feels that his correct perception of the moral ambiguities of politics has degenerated into a cynicism that has given up on the hard responsibilities of neighbour-love. But nothing is gained when Christian commentators respond […]
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Dave Andrews Many Christians and Muslims believe religion is all about the ‘truth’. Author Francis Schaeffer once famously claimed that his religion was the ‘true truth’. Both Christians and Muslims are taught to witness to the ‘true truth’ claims of their religion, over against the ‘false truth’ claims (or ‘lies’) of other religions. Christians preach: […]
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The trajectory of leftwing mobilisations in Britain has in recent years followed a consistent pattern: they go up like fireworks and come down the same way. People gather in a fiery rush of creativity and hope, then implode and fall to earth. The tumult of ideas, so inspiring in the early days, leads to confusion […]
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September 5, 2015 by Worship, Community, Formation I was not expecting to like Dave Andrews. I could tell even without doing any actual research that he was a hairy didactic Aussie; and I did not want to spend my birthday evening listening to a bossy old hippy from Down Under. My wife however thought it […]
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Many Christians are taught that religion is all about the ‘truth’. Many Christians believe ‘our religion’ is the ‘true truth’ and ‘our God’ is the ‘true God’. We are trained to ‘witness’ to the ‘true truth’ about the ‘true God’ of our religion over against the ‘false truth’ about the ‘false God’ of other religions. […]
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