Teaching the Faith of Another
Teaching the Faith of Another: Reflections arising from Britain is an article drawn from a paper presented at a conference in March 2016 in Lahore, Pakistan, on “Contemporary Issues in Religious Education”.
Understanding Islam
Exploring a Christian incarnational approach
Many Christian people have told me that they know in their hearts that people of other faiths and those who profess no faith live godly lives and that their relationship with the one and only God is manifest in their lives. There …
Approaching Christian-Muslim Education
As two faith communities before the one and only God, this should affect the way in which our faith education is done. How do we seek to hear God speaking to us through the faith and practice of the other? How does …
A paradigm shift in understanding Christianity and Islam
Both Christianity and Islam operate within certain conceptual models or paradigms. All too often, when someone from one faith seeks to understand the other, they try to make that faith fit their own paradigm instead of entering into the paradigm of the …
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Badshah Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan – ‘The Muslim Gandhi’
The name of Badshah Khan Abdul Ghaffar Kahn is little known today, but any man who can lead one hundred thousand Pashtun warriors as a disciplined army committed to the nonviolent struggle for the liberation of India from British rule is worthy …
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Sunni and Shi’a paradigms of Islam
As part of the GCSE Religious Studies: Islam resource (see the button above), two new articles have been added: A Sunni paradigm of Islam and The Shi’a perspective on Islam.
Training for dialogue with Islam
The Catholic Bishops of Germany have a national information, resource and training centre for dialogue with Islam and Muslims, called CIBEDO, in Frankfurt. I was invited to lead a seminar there in October 2014 to explore “The training of Christian workers for …