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An Excerpt from LOVE in a TIME of CORONA

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The arrival board at Muscat Airport reports that the Biman Airlines flight arrived at 00:45 from Dhaka, Bangladesh.  “Bags are on the belt,” displays the automated sign board.  Then it changes to “Bags are delivered.” I tell Gary Brown that I am going to get a espresso shot at Café…

Dialogue and Change

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The beautiful mountains of Oman near Wakan village Last week, I took a taxi to go to Casa Blue Café to watch a football game on the big screen. I got to talking with the driver, trying to make small talk with my newly learned Arabic. He asked me what it is I do in Oman. I paused to think. How do…

Holy Cross-roads: Looking both ways

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Earlier this month, Al Amana Centre hosted students from University of Notre Dame in Indiana and University of Notre Dame Bangladesh together for a program called "Holy Crossroads." For one week, the students engaged in interfaith dialogue, cross-cultural sharing, and experiential learning. The following…

The Christian’s Work of Reconciliation: Bringing God’s Peace & Harmony to Earth

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I share with you an abridged version of a paper I presented at a seminar held at Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh last year.  While we speak of the message and ministry of reconciliation amongst ourselves, we need to share this message and enact this ministry with persons of other faiths. …