From Hate to Love Through War
I was born in the same year Lebanon entered into what would become sixteen years of civil war. During the years of Syrian occupation, our people were killed, our women […]
Education, Leadership, and Mission: A Critical View in a Critical Age
This article is adapted from a post on the ABTS blog on January 31, 2019. In a Middle East where corruption has become an integral part of the social fabric, where oppression has […]
Rights over Might: The United Nations, Religious Freedom and our Role and Responsibility
Many of my fellow Evangelicals have expressed dissatisfaction with the United Nations, sharing views ranging from, “The U.N. is an evil global government” to, “The U.N. is inefficient and useless.” […]
Confronting Tyranny, The Jesus Way
A deliberate war waged against Yemen has killed more than 10,000 people and displaced millions. The situation on the ground is appalling. There have been over 1.2 million suspected cholera cases since April 2017 – […]
Lessons from Lebanon: Responding to Refugees and Migrants with the Heart of Christ
Throughout my ministry, I have been blessed by countless books, courses, lectures, and scholarship from leading, mostly Western, voices. I earned my doctorate from a prominent Christian institution in the […]
Priesthood of All Believers or Priesthood of the Ordained?
This article is adapted from a post on the ABTS blog on July 26, 2018. In my last blog post in February, I wrote about women in seminary. I based my main argument on the […]
Ramadan Prayer: Muslims of the East Arabian Peninsula
Long ago, wise men in Eastern Arabia noticed a beautiful star burning brightly in the night sky and set out on an adventure to see where it would lead them. […]
The Faces of Displacement: A Story Much Closer than We Realize
This article is adapted from a post on the ABTS blog on May 17, 2018. We tend to put faces on unfortunate things. It is not a good practice but we do it […]
The Night of Power
This Sunday may celebrate the ‘Night of Power’ (Laylat al-Qadr) for many Muslims when Mohammad was thought to have received the first revelation of the Qur’an from the angel Jibril […]
An Arab Evangelical Message to American Evangelicals
This article originally appeared on the ABTS blog on May 24, 2018. In March of this year at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, I saw a man sitting next to […]