{"id":640,"date":"2010-05-17T10:40:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T10:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2010\/05\/muslim-christian-dialogue-starts-this-wednesday.html"},"modified":"2010-05-17T10:40:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T10:40:14","slug":"muslim-christian-dialogue-starts-this-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2010\/05\/muslim-christian-dialogue-starts-this-wednesday.html","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Christian Dialogue&#8211;Starts this Wednesday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/betweenAllah&amp;Jesus-thumb-200x299-12907-12908.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/109\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/betweenAllah&amp;Jesus-thumb-200x299-12907-thumb-200x299-12908.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"299\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for betweenAllah&amp;Jesus.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/a><\/span>A while back I let you know that I would be entering into a dialogue with my&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/\">fellow colleague here at Beliefnet, Aziz Poonawalla.<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Our discussion will center around a new book by Peter J. 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D., Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. &nbsp;The book is entitled, &#8220;Between Allah &amp; Jesus: &nbsp;What Christians Can Learn from Muslims.&#8221; &nbsp;It&#8217;s an &#8220;imagininative conversation on issues ranging from prayer and worship to evolution and abortion, from war and politics to the nature of spiritual struggle and spiritual submission.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Here&#8217;s how this is going to work:<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;Beginning this Wednesday Beliefnet will post an excerpt from the book. &nbsp;I&#8217;ll provide a link so you can go read it for yourself. &nbsp;Then Aziz Poonawalla and I will discuss the overarching themes found in the excerpt and then we&#8217;ll leave room for you to join in as well. &nbsp;This dialogue will last for three weeks with a new excerpt each Wednesday. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>A note to my fellow brother&#8217;s and sister&#8217;s in Christ:<\/b> &nbsp;We know that there are significant differences between Christians and Muslims, that&#8217;s a given. &nbsp;Let us seek to understand and conduct ourselves with humility and grace&#8211;as Christ would. &nbsp;<font color=\"#000000\" face=\"arial, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I let you know that I would be entering into a dialogue with my&nbsp;fellow colleague here at Beliefnet, Aziz Poonawalla. 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