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Humantrustees.org aims to foster understanding and cooperation between Muslims and Christians so as to empower them to live up to their God-given calling as “trustees of the earth.” This Christian initiative seeks to accomplish this goal through scholarship, teaching, news commentary, and networking between scholars, members of both communities, and with anyone else who is passionate about peace and human flourishing.
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04 September 2023

Learning from Indigenous Creation Theology (2)

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“The 12th Annual Hunting Moon Pow Wow, hosted by the Forest County Potawatomi, was held from October 14 to 16 at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena” (2016)
In the first half of this post, I introduced Native American theologian George E. “Tink” Tinker and used some of the material in his book, American Indian Liberation, to offer us a double reality check: first, the horrors committed by the colonial masters in the Americas, starting with Columbus and stretching the United States’ genocide of the Native populations in…
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25 August 2023

Learning from Indigenous Creation Theology (1)

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“Act of Repentance toward Healing Relationships with Indigenous Peoples,” at the United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Fla, on April 27, 2012.
This will be a two-part blog post about one Native American theologian (George E. “Tink” Tinker) and his most famous book, American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty. But this is only partially a book review. In the second half I connect some of these thoughts to portions of a paper I just submitted to the journal Missiology. Indigenous peoples,…
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05 August 2023

From Mizrahi Jews to the Apartheid State

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“Quick Thoughts: Avi Shlaim on Israel’s New Historians, Hamas, and the BDS Movement” in Jadaliyya
My purpose here is simple – to get you to listen to the 54-minute Middle East Eye interview with Oxford historian Avi Shlaim. The first part concerns Shlaim’s biography and the second, as the title suggests, captures his view as an Israeli historian of the current protests and the future of the Israeli state. How did a Jewish boy born…
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17 February 2023

Iran's 2022 Protests: Women Stand Up

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“A young woman facing riot police in Rasht.” This is from a blog on the US Institute for Peace website called “Iran Primer.” This article by Kourosh Ziabari from October 24, 2022 is entitled, “Explainer: Iran’s 2022 Protests in Context.”
On September 16, 2022, the Iranian morality police arrested a 22-year-old Kurdish woman visiting relatives in Teheran likely because her hijab had slipped a bit over her head, showing some hair. Three days later, Mahsa Amini died in police custody, presumably from the beatings she received. Within days, dozens of Iranian cities in all parts of the country exploded in…
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