Rev Ray Gaston has just published his book, A Heart Broken Open. I can highly recommend it as a story of one person's journey into deep and powerfully transformative relations with Muslims. Ray documents the changes he experienced opening himself up to the hospitality of Muslims from a radicalised commitment to the ant-war movement around the Iraq invasion. It's edgy, political, deeply spiritual and infused with repeated grapplings with scripture and Christian prayer as he recounts his journey. You can access a flyer for the book here.
Share the Guide is a site from Fresh Expressions resourcing new models of church in contemporary culture and I've written a short piece helping to provide some tools for thinking about church and other faiths here.
I wonder what Ray Gaston has to say in his book about the persecution of Christians and other non-Muslim minorities in numerous Muslim countries. Little or nothing, probably, if he believes the problem in Christian-Muslim relations is largely the fault of 'Islamophobia'.
Posted by: Stanislaw | March 16, 2010 at 08:17 PM