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...natural response to an article like this is to say that I’m just another religious person exploiting people’s emotional vulnerability after a national tragedy for my sectarian goals. I am a follower of Jesus. But let me explain why I think our emotional vulnerability is a healthy crossroads for all of us—under the cloak of crowd behavior, we can feel safe finally unveiling the deep loneliness and insecurity that saturates our souls under the surface of confident competence...
...Muslim friend said to me last year as we talked about this phenomenon at Harvard, “We’re on the same team here. God will sort out whether Jesus was a prophet or God, but we’ve got people at this school who don’t know God loves them. There are people that don’t even think God exists, that God doesn’t have a plan for the world, and that don’t know they can enter into relationship with...
Jakes may be able to pack a stadium with his preaching, but that seems to be the only similarity he has with Billy Graham. Jakes justifies his lavish lifestyle by saying that Jesus "must have been rich to support his disciples." May Jakes put his emphasis on the plain preaching of the Gospel of Christ rather than on "ornate call-and-response cues and dramatic eruptions." Have we not had enough disappointments from those wealthy televangelist preachers of the 1980s? L. HOYT GRIFFITH Wirtz...
...Judaism and Christianity. Muslims are "people of the book," accepting the Jewish Bible and the New Testament as Holy Scripture while maintaining that the Koran's famously elegant and expressive Arabic is God's final and inerrant word. Similarly, followers of Islam believe Moses, John the Baptist and Jesus were prophets but the final messenger was Muhammad, to whom, they say, the angel Gabriel dictated the Koran. Like Christians and Jews, says Jamal Badawi, a religion professor at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, N.S., their core concerns are "moral behavior, love of neighbor, justice and compassion. We believe that...
...describe America's antiterror effort an unfortunate choice). An even greater sore is the sense that, in the centuries since, so much dignity has been lost, and to an inferior people. In Islamic belief, Muhammad is God's last prophet; he built upon the revelations of Moses and Jesus to propound a superior, perfect faith. But the world that faith created was broken apart: after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, the colonial powers of France and Britain carved the Middle East into arbitrarily drawn mandates and states governed by handpicked local leaders. "Many Arabs...