October 22, 2015
By Suzie Lahoud “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.” 1 Cor. 13:12 Like Jacob, I have recently wrestled with God over the politics of my own […]
July 24, 2015
By Arthur Brown And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them…There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one […]
July 9, 2015
by Mike Kuhn Having grown up in the West, I was aware that a trend emerged in the post-World Wars era towards a rejection of religion. The brutality and sheer evil of the World Wars led many to reject belief in God. If God is good and all-powerful, how could […]
June 24, 2015
By Arthur Brown Last week [15-19 June], IMES hosted its second consultation on the theme of discipleship in the MENA region. This year’s consultation, Discipleship Today: Identity and Belonging in the Middle East and North Africa, attracted representatives from 28 countries, including: Algeria, Tanzania, Iraq, Bangladesh, Singapore, the Netherlands, Syria, […]
June 12, 2015
by Kathryn Kraft A few weeks ago, I was sharing with a friend at my church in London about my research with churches in Lebanon. As Rupen Das described in a post several months ago, many churches in Lebanon are providing assistance including food, blankets, clothing, or education, to refugees, most […]
June 4, 2015
Without question, June is consistently our busiest month of the year at the Institute of Middle East Studies. As such, we wish to highlight a number of the projects that we have been working on as we seek to fulfill our institutional mandate: To bring about positive transformation in thinking and practice […]
May 28, 2015
by Elias Ghazal If you are familiar with the politics of the Middle East, you might be disturbed by the title of this blogpost. That’s because the Party of God is not some right wing pro-Christian party that serves a Christian cause in the Middle East. The Party of God […]
May 21, 2015
By Rose Khouri Western academia is filled with research on the effects of a colonialist, imperialistic Christianity and its intersection with modern identities. As my colleague Jesse Wheeler alluded to last week, from the native peoples of the modern day United States to the descendants of Africans taken from their […]