This book reveals a rich diversity of Anabaptist engagement with Muslims around the world. Here are essays and reports from missionaries in the field, administrators at mission agencies, professors and scholars of mission, and theologicals. Among these voices is a spirit of dialogue, questioning, agreeing, amazement, and sometimes dissent. Anabaptists Meeting Muslims does not seek to present a homogenized view that flows through a predetermined Anabaptist ideological grid. Rather it is a forum for giving and receiving counsel and a place to share stories and reflections that will encourage and help to equip Christians for the calling to presence in the way of Christ. 568 Pages.
I was born and raised in a logging community in the Cascades mountains. I share with Janet, my wife, a life-long passion for exploring the world. As friends and newly-weds in the early 1970s, we backpacked through Europe and worked on a kibbutz in Israel. From 1972 until 1990 we have lived and worked in Jerusalem, Israel; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Munich, Germany; and Perth, Western Australia.
I have a Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America, a MA in religion from Eastern Mennonite Seminary, and a BA in Bible from Eastern Mennonite University. Since 1993 I have been teaching courses in religion, culture, and mission at Eastern Mennonite University, and directing the Coffman Center at Eastern Mennonite Seminary.
Together, my wife and I have led Eastern Mennonite University's cross-cultural study semester with around 30 students to the Middle East numerous times, as well as smaller summer study programs to Albania, Lithuania, Greece and Turkey. In the summers we continue to explore the Mediterranean aboard SailingActs.
We have two grown sons, David, a student at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California, and Jonathan, a professional actor in Chicago.
