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Date of source: Sunday, August 5, 2007
The article discusses the ninth annual St. Shenouda Conference of Coptic Studies held at the University of California Los Angeles, and highlights the topics discussed and presented.
Date of source: Sunday, March 27, 2005
The Coptic Orthodox Church, isolated from the rest of Christendom for 1400 years by Chalcedon and Islam, is often unknown in the West. When I once explained to an interlocutor why I had been in Egypt--to study Coptic Christianity--the response was, "There are Christians in Egypt?!" Fortunately,...
Date of source: Sunday, October 29, 2006
Tim Vivian reviews the book, ‘Demons and the Making of the Monk.’ He concludes, “modern weaponry has only made the results of evil more horrible. All the more reason to read and ponder this fine book that teaches us how some of the ancients, in this case monks in Egypt in late antiquity, understood...
Date of source: Sunday, October 1, 2006
This article describes the eighth conference of the St Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society, held at the University of California Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.). The author says that this year’s conference was particularly successful, particularly because of the participation of Coptic youth this year...
Date of source: Sunday, September 10, 2006
This article is a review of the book ‘Words to live by,’ a book by Coptic scholar and priest Tim Vivian who shares personal accounts of journeys to present-day monasteries in Egypt and translations of ancient texts that reveal insights that have guided desert monks for nearly two millennia.
Date of source: Sunday, July 23, 2006
The author reflects on the importance of the book ‘Life of Anthony’ by St. Athanasius. He asserts that this “masterpiece of Christian literature” should be included in the public curriculum of subjects such as languages, literature, history, anthropology, international studies, or religious studies...
Date of source: Thursday, November 11, 2004 to Sunday, November 14, 2004
How does one write a polemic that’s non-polemical, a manifesto that’s not manifestly so? With Christians Observed, the Revd. Dr John Watson, a priest in the Church of England and frequent contributor to Watani, has managed to answer the question.
Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 2004
Now Benedicta Ward SLG and Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, have joined (or, better, rejoined) the caravan out to the desert--not, fortunately, as tourists but as seekers and translators. Dr. Rowan Williams’ Silence and Honey Cakes illustrates the wisdom Coptic monastic life. Sister...
Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.