Muslims find new Ramadan fast partners: Christians



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Muslims find new Ramadan fast
partners:


Christians

by

Eric Gorski,
Associated Press,
September 21, 2009

From
Lighthouse Trails
Research 

LTRP Note: The following
Associated Press article illustrates the fast-moving interspiritual
emphasis by contemplative/emerging church leaders.

 


“Like
Muslims worldwide, Ben Ries has refrained from food and drink from sunrise
to sundown in an act of self-restraint during the Islamic holy month of
Ramadan, which ends this weekend….

Only Ries is not a Muslim. He is pastor of 70-member Sterling Drive
Church of Christ and a self-described committed Christian who just a few
weeks ago had to turn to Google to find a Muslim in his community.

Ries is among a small group of Christians who’ve joined well-known
evangelical author and speaker
Brian McLaren in
observing a Ramadan fast, opening a new chapter in interfaith relations
between two traditions often at odds.

To McLaren and his Christian and Muslim fasting partners, it’s a
neighborly gesture of
solidarity that deepens their respective faiths and sends a message
about finding peace and common
ground….

McLaren, 53,
is the godfather of the “emerging” or
“emergent” church, a
loose-knit movement that seeks to recover ancient Christian worship
practices and, in some cases, question traditional evangelical theology….

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