I have a Google alert set up to bring me news with the keywords “Islam, education and technology.” It has, occasionally, brought me some interesting articles on the use of technology to teach American students about Islam and the Islamic world. Today the automatically generated message brought me a piece from Christianity Today: A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction bearing the title “Where Jerusalem and Mecca Meet.”
It is an article about Muslim students at Houston Baptist University, so Jerusalem in the title represents Christianity and Mecca, Islam. Never mind that Jerusalem is a deeply sacred city in the eyes of Muslims as well, not to mention Jews, or that Jerusalem has a Muslim population. In this kind of periodical, the titles are more often than not provided by editors, not the writers, so I won’t rush to blame the Gregg Chenoweth and Caleb Benoit.
It’s an odd article, though. And it is about an odd situation. But it makes an interesting read.
President Robert Sloan, the man whose ambitious plan to turn Baylor University into a premiere Christian research institution polarized the Waco campus in 2005, has brought a similar faith-and-learning vision to HBU—one that has room for Muslim students. “It keeps us from being too insular,” says Sloan, president since August 2006. “It also gives us an opportunity to learn how to witness right here, from experience.”
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Shepherding this spiritual nexus is Colette Cross, HBU’s chaplain and director of spiritual life, who oversees the Community Life and Worship program (CLW) program, an 80-credit graduation requirement that includes Bible study, weekly chapel, and community service, among other options. Cross works with director of campus recreation Saleim Kahleh, a Muslim-background Christian who prays with students before intramural sports events. He says that recently a freshman Muslim woman made connections through Bible studies and basketball games, and is now “walking with the Lord.”
Kahleh also runs an on-campus Alpha course, the popular co-curricular introduction to Christian basics. His last session featured three Muslims in a group of ten. Further, Cross hosts interfaith discussions with representatives from Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity. While comparative religion studies are typical at evangelical schools, a multi-religious populace is not.
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