My Day In Nablus
July 20, 2005
After finally getting through the checkpoint, both groups rendezvoused at the An-Najah National University (Old Campus) in Nablus. An-Najah is the 2nd largest university in the West Bank, and about 16,000 students attend school there on one of their two campuses. We were met by some of the students and they gave us a tour [...]
Tags: Christian, Interfaith Dialogue, Middle East, Muslim, Palestine, Travel
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Interfaith Dialogue
June 11, 2005
This is All Saints Cathedral in Zamalek, the island across the Nile from downtown Cairo, and the church where I met Henrik, the Dutch pastor who is here doing a Ph.D. on interfaith dialogue between Muslims and Christians. The church is very active, hosting a clinic and is very involved with a Sudanese Refugee program. [...]
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“Are YOU born again?”
April 27, 2004
I don’t like the Christianese term born again.”
I had to laugh when in Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott relates a story while in a plane, and a man reading a “hard-core right-wing paranoid anti-Semitic homophobic misogynistic propaganda” book about the Apocalypse (I think she was referring to a Left Behind novel) asked her, “Are you born [...]
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Easter Song, please…
March 16, 2004
Easter, the joyous season, the season of bunnies, and colored-eggs, and resurrections…and…PowerPoint shows. So here’s the deal. I put one together for Easter last year, and as far as PowerPoints go, I was pretty pleased with how it all turned out (images, narration, music, etc). I used some different stuff, but we played the song [...]
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“Method” to our Madness: Why This Space?
August 30, 2003
Dear friends [and random webloggers who have stumbled across this blog]:
I have created this space so that you might become a part of the writing process that will lead to a book my friend Tony and I are writing re: postmodernism (PoMo) and Christian faith. This space will feature the rough drafts of sections for [...]
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: I am a 28 yr old 
