Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Interfaith relations

March 8 issue

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  Photo by Mikhail Sushkov/Trinity Video Seminary

  A bridge with Islam

  KURSK, Russia — Whenever he teaches a course on Islam, David W. Shenk imagines his Muslim friend Badru D. Kateregga is in class with him.

  Shenk, a global consultant with Eastern Mennonite Missions, used that format as he lectured on Islam and Christianity in January at Trinity Video Seminary. The seminary is loosely affiliated with the Baptist Union but serves evangelical churches in Russia and Central Asia more broadly.

Nov. 9, 2009 issue

• Not the Great Commission

  Last month, I went to a talk given by former U.S. Air Force officer Mikey Weinstein at a local university. Speaking on behalf of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, he shared the following story of a soldier serving in Iraq who called him, sobbing, recently.

Sept. 7, 2009 issue

• Holocaust studies

  I appreciated the July 6 editorial acknowledging the death of Franklin Littell and noting his contributions to the study of Anabaptism and to establishing a place for Holocaust studies in colleges, universities and seminaries.

• Praying at the mosque

  BETHLEHEM — Every day at dawn, noon, midafternoon, sunset and at 9:30 p.m. the imams go to their microphones and in a loud melodic voice call everyone to prayer.

Aug. 24, 2009 issue

• Following Jesus thoughtfully

  Set among the Tibetan Himalayas, Unmistaken Child documents a Buddhist monk’s search for the toddler he believes is the reincarnation of his mentor and spiritual teacher, who died in 2001.

July 20, 2009 issue

• Prayer vigil gathers at anti-Islam display

  GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Eve MacMaster, pastor of Emmanuel Mennonite Church, called for prayer after seeing a sign that read “Islam is of the Devil.”

July 13, 2009 issue

• Guidelines for proselytizing

  I know when I am about to be proselytized by Muslims. I see the light in their eyes, the smile of anticipation.

July 6, 2009 issue

• Light shines on an old prejudice

  Historian Franklin H. Littell broke ground in two fields of study, the Holocaust and the origins of Anabaptism. Littell died May 23 near Philadelphia at the age of 91. Recent events confirm that what he taught for decades bears repeating: Christians must learn the lessons of the Holocaust and oppose anti-Semitism.
  

May 4, 2009 issue

• An interfaith call to peace

  In my last column, about the sixth anniversary of the war in Iraq, I mentioned the need to reject complicity with violence that governments commit in the name of their citizens.
  

April 27, 2009 issue

• ‘Children of Abraham’ together

  GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Passover was different here this year, uniting people of three faiths.

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