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Intro to Loving Muslim Neighbors San Jose 2016
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The Episcopal Church in Almaden
6581 Camden Ave. San Jose, CA 95120Description
INTRODUCTION TO LOVING MUSLIM NEIGHBORS is a seminar for Christians who want to understand and bless Muslims with grace and friendship. It navigates through a maze of conflicting information and stereotypes, then equips Christians with solutions to challenges that have vexed Christian-Muslim relations for centuries. Learn how to build bridges of respect and understanding that will deeply touch Muslim hearts.
Our world is experiencing shifting populations, unprecedented change, and growing religious extremism...
Muslims and Christians together make up more than half the world’s population. Christians and Muslims must therefore find ways to coexist peacefully if future generations will enjoy any meaningful peace together. Acknowledging this, global Muslim leaders, intellectuals and clerics sent a letter to top church leaders everywhere to extend a hand of friendship. Entitled “A Common Word Between Us and You”, their letter pointed to the teachings of Jesus as the basis for peaceful coexistence:
'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these. (Mark 12:29-31)
After identifying these commandments as the common ground between Islam and Christianity, Muslim authors of the letter closed with a colossal challenge:
So let our differences not cause hatred and strife between us. Let us vie with each other only in righteousness and good works. Let us respect each other, be fair, just and kind to another and live in sincere peace, harmony and mutual goodwill.
Attend Introduction to Loving Muslim Neighbors and learn ...
- What Muslims really believe about God, Jesus and Christians.
- Muslim sensitivities every Christian should know.
- Expressions of Christian faith that Muslims appreciate most.
Instructor
Rod Cardoza
AAi Founder and Executive Director
Rod Cardoza is a cultural, theological, and linguistic anthropologist. He has published ethnographic research on Muslim ritual and lectures internationally on Muslim-Christian relations. He earned a degree in anthropology at San Jose State University, conducted theological studies at Columbia Biblical Seminary, then moved to India with his family to study Urdu language at Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia. He worked closely with leading Muslim scholars in India to publish faith-based, peacebuilding Urdu texts. He later moved his family to Egypt where he studied Arabic and researched the role of Muslim cinematography in teaching Islamic knowledge. Rod is the author of "New Paths in Muslim-Christian Dialog: Understanding Islam from the Light of Earliest Jewish Christianity," presented in Washington, DC at the Annual Conference on Muslim Peace, Justice and Interfaith Dialogue, and recently published in The Muslim World, a journal devoted to the study of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations.
What seminar graduates are saying...
"Informative, eye-opening and challenging. It even helped me understand my own faith better."
—SUSAN, Senior Teacher, Bible Study Fellowship, SAN JOSE, California
"Awesome! The seminar has opened up my brain and widened my heart. I’m really surprised that it has not already been published as a book!"
-LUCA, Ph.D. Knowledge Manager, HEMSBACH, Germany
"This seminar is the solution to the confusion that began with the Tower of Babel."
—MICHAEL, Enterprise Architect, SILICON VALLEY, California
"I'd still be an Islamophobe had I not taken this seminar."
—BRENT, Entrepenuer, SILICON VALLEY, California
"This seminar helped me see Christianity through Muslim eyes."
—CHRIS, ESL Teacher, LUCKNOW, India
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Abrahamic Alliance International is a charitable non-profit organization uniting Jews, Christians, and Muslims for poverty relief and active peacebuilding.