An ongoing conversation about America, the Middle East, and Jesus

Do you know the differences between Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda?

By Safi Kaskas & Friends
January 20, 2010
Since 9/11Western and Muslim scholarship has characterized the political relationship between the Muslim world and the West as one full of tension and conflict. For evidence of this tension we need look no further than Barrack Obama’s recent speech at the heartland of Islamic scholarship, al-Azhar University in Cairo, in

Carl and his team have been hard at work on his website, and have recently added a pretty cool feature–one you just can’t miss. Check out his site at http://www.carlmedearis.com/ and listen to Carl’s thoughts on the Good Samaritan. And a hint–hang out long enough to hear Carl’s whole speech…and then some. Enjoy!

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The answer: Yes! I mean, No. Well, okay, possibly.
The problem with answering difficult questions is that the answers don’t fit on a bumper sticker. So, we have to fully engage our minds and hearts in answering a question like this.
It’s like so many other questions I get – like: Do you think if

I believe childhood’s compromise at the hand of fear is at least part of the cause of humanity’s greatest wars – such as the enduring Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While I appreciate the immediate logic of maintaining worthy status quo defense – particularly when the lives of a country are at stake, I believe that these actions – primarily of men on both sides of the conflict – are at their deepest level very possibly exponentially excessive responses to fears borne of greatly traumatized childhoods. They are also understandable