Nov 25 2007
In advance of the Teheran Conference of June 1969, fellow missionaries in Lebanon asked Missionary Virginia Cobb to prepare their position paper on missionary methods for work among Muslims. (See The Commission, November 1969, for a conference report and related stories.) Detained in Beirut, Lebanon, by illness, Miss Cobb did not reach Teheran in time …
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Nov 13 2007
Glad to hear your trip is going well. My Muslim friend here is a former imam himself, so maybe you can continue your dialogue when you get home. Wish my dad lived closer so you two could visit. I spoke with him this evening and he is quite concerned about the idea of using the …
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Nov 07 2007
Here we go again. Is there no limit to the willful ignorance that manifests itself on these pages? If the writers who routinely berate Charley Reese for his studied sympathies ever stop scouring the Internet for imaginary jihads, we’ll all be better off. Do us a big favor and stick to researching dubious medical remedies; …
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Oct 25 2007
Norwegian friend Barre has scanned the 1948 edition of the Iraq Petroleum Company’s handbook. The section on Islam, starting here: http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/300/380/388/ipc/ipc-hb-1948/pages-html/021.html …is probably as good a summary as you’ll find. There are overtones of Western superiority in the writing, but it’s a quick read and kinda depressing to think about the state of affairs in …
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Oct 20 2007
While I still cringe at the insensitivity of the Camel Method’s name (or perhaps at my own hyper-sensitivity), I am finding some positive comments: From a missionary’s blog: The Camel method sure is a hot topic right now! I am amazed at how much heat it is generating in the blogosphere. In the training we …
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Sep 11 2007
Did anyone watch Glenn Beck on CNN last night? I did not, but someone who did was able to recite its premise almost verbatim today. In short, Muslim extremists are among us and planning a “Perfect Storm” that will make the Beslan school attack (near Chechnya) from a couple of years ago seem mild by comparison. Beck …
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Sep 08 2007
YaLibnanTV (websites www.yalibnan.com/ and www.iloubnan.info/-English) has this disturbing bit: If you would like to know if you are Phoenician and interested in knowing your lineage, then please visit The Genographic Projects’ website to contribute DNA… As an American mongrel with mixtures of English, German, Irish, Cherokee, Pawnee, and God-only-knows what else, when I read/hear about …
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