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Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet at 100

Gibran Khalil Gibran wrote this to his dear Mary Haskell from Paris already in 1908 about what would eventually become a trilogy, a full fifteen years before the publication of its first volume, The Prophet. And in another letter to Haskell shortly after it was published, he wrote:  The whole Prophet is saying just one thing: you are far far greater than you know – and All is well. The first words of The Prophet were quoted in the

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Dr. Michael Spath January 13, 2023

Where Do You Find Hope?

Dear friends and supporters of Indiana Center for Middle East Peace,      The two questions I’m asked most often are:       First, “Why do you do what you do?  What is it about the Palestinian issue that has caused you to commit your life to it?”       And the second, “Where do you find hope?”      I always, always respond with the same answer:  It is because of the Palestinian people.       It is because of the many Palestinian

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Dr. Michael Spath December 19, 2022

A Declaration to the World

Dear friends and supporters of Indiana Center for Middle East Peace,I was invited to represent ICMEP at the (November 18-19) 13th anniversary of the seminal Kairos Palestine document (2009) and for the Global Kairos for Justice Coalition (of which ICMEP is a member) meetings. The document below – really a manifesto – is the result of our conversations in which the gathered 35 representatives from four continents and 16 countries unanimously and enthusiastically signed in support of our sisters and brothers in Palestine and Israel.The document issues a concrete call

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Dr. Michael Spath November 24, 2022

ALPHA: Exploring the Concept of Masculinity in Jerusalem’s Museum On the Seam

So I’m in Palestine and Israel this week for the 13th anniversary of the Kairos Palestine document as well as meetings of the Global Kairos for Justice Coalition. But I first laid over in Jerusalem on Tuesday for meetings with Jeff Halper and Awad Abdelfattah, two of the leaders (Israeli Jewish and Palestinian) of the One Democratic State Campaign. I arrived in Beit Sahour, adjacent to Bethlehem, yesterday (Wednesday, November 16), where I caught up with Elaine Zoughbi, Zoughbi

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Dr. Michael Spath November 17, 2022

What Is Theologically Significant About National Borders?

“What is theologically significant about national borders?” “What might the Christian theological tradition have to offer on the subject of national borders?” That was the question posed to me by Sandy Garcia as part of an assignment at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis where she is a student. Sandy is one-half of the husband-wife pastor-team (Martin Garcia the other) at Amistad Cristiana Center, a bilingual Presbyterian church on the southeast side of Fort Wayne, the home now of Dar

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Dr. Michael Spath September 5, 2022

Status Confessionis or “How Did the Progressive Church Become M. L. King’s ‘White Moderates’”?

I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! From now on five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; they will be divided: father against son

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Dr. Michael Spath August 15, 2022
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