People power and land themes
http://www.crosslinks.org/what/reallife/glaser_dangerous_triangle.pdfends with this interesting quote:
"Many of our European countries have a ‘Christian heritage’, and a history in which some form of Christianity has been used to strengthen the political powers in our lands. The growing Islamic presence highlights for us a challenge of which might otherwise have remained blissfully unaware. Are we trying to use Christianity to bolster the power of our own people in our own place? Or do we live as witnesses bringing the heavenly dimension to bear at every point of the earthly kingdoms?
If we want to do the latter, we need first to understand the power-people-land dimensions of ourselves, our societies, and our Muslim neighbours. We may then be able to discern how to interact with them without trying to take power into our own hands, for the sake of our own people, and without falling into the false belief that we own the land."
Ida Glaser has also written interestingly in Christianity & Renewal August Issue
http://www.christianitymagazine.co.uk/
about the "House of Treaty" and the "House of War" in Islam
Useful background to current affairs.
posted by Colin Darling @ 6:36 PM
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