Duane Alexander Miller's Blog, page 9

Planting an Arabic-language Church in Spain

This has definitely been a work in progress…

Beginning a bit over two years ago we started with a project to plant an Arabic-language church here in Madrid—Kanisa.

Two years in we decided to record our reflections on what works, what does not, and answer some questions from colleagues around the world.

Here are the four videos:

Leave any questions or comments below or at the YouTube page. We also have a Facebook page.

I Will Give Them an Everlasting Name

I am happy to share that is now available. Published by Regnum Books (Oxford, UK), here is the back material with endorsements and a summary.

Pastoral Care for Christ’s Converts from Islam

This book is forthcoming in late 2020 (or maybe early 2021). Here are three videos from a talk I recently gave (Lavapies, Madrid, 30 Oct 2020) on some of the ideas and research that went into this book. Enjoy, and consider buying the book once it is published.

La Ordenación de la Mujeres: mas opciones de las que creías, en “La Luz”

Ya salió número dos de La Luz: Pensamiento Anglicano. Escribí un artículo sobre diferentes ideas sobre la ordenación de las mujeres en la familia Anglicana. Aquí está me artículo:

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Igual se puede encontrar en mi página de academia.edu.

Aquí una sección:

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Les animo a apoyar La Luz. Se puede comprar en linea aquí.

The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Christianity in the Middle East

I am very glad to share that this excellent new work will be published soon. This will hopefully take place in late 2020, maybe in 2021.

I contributed in a number of ways, but most importantly I wrote the chapter on Christianity in what is today Saudi Arabia, though the paper contains both historical and contemporary material.

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Summer in Castilla y León and Asturias

Let’s call it 2/3 vacation and 1/3 traveling work.

This summer the Miller family spent a week and half in the small village of Villaescusa in the Comunidad (state) of Castilla y León. We spent the next week and a half in a rural community outside of Posada de Llanera in the Comunidad (state) of Asturias.

We visited many historical and cultural sites. We went to the beach at the Bay of Biscay, we ate the local foods of hornazo, Cachopo, fabada asturiana, sidra, and so on.

As a priest I also ministered at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Villaescusa, the Church of the Redeemer in Salamanca, and preached at the Church of St Eulalia in Oviedo. For the first two churches, it was the first time they had received a pastoral visit in many months, sinOce before the quarantine started in March.

Here are some pictures from Castilla y León:

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[image error]Duane and Sharon in the Cathedral of Salamanca



[image error]Sunflower fields are all around

And now some pictures from beautiful Asturias:

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[image error]Anglican Church of St Eulalia in Oviedo



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[image error]The countryside of Posada de Llanera



[image error]Duane getting to know the locals in Oviedo

Hope you enjoyed these photos. Leave questions in the comment section.

Una Teología de Milagros

Sermón del 12 de julio, 2020, en la catedral del redentor.

Mark Durie’s prayers of renunciation

The Rev. Dr. Mark Durie has done some very important work on the theme of conversion from Islam to Christianity. He argues in his book Liberty to the Captives that converts should openly and liturgically renounce their former covenant with Allah that was mediated through Muhammad.

This is especially relevant in relation to those dealing with the baptism of a convert, since it is the sacrament whereby one enters into the Church, which is to say the people of the New Covenant—one with a different mediator.

Learn more by reading this interesting (if provocative) PDF:

Prayers for Freedom

Select articles from St Francis Magazine (2007)

And without further ado here are some additional articles from St Francis Magazine, sadly now out of print (and off-line). The online journal made a solid contribution to the study and practice of Christian mission and ministry in Arab (and Islamic, in general) contexts. Here are my selections of from the 2007 volumes.

Basil Grafas – Evaluation of Scriptural Support for Insider Movements

Bill Nikides – The Church at the Cross Roads

Bishop Maroun Lahham of Tunisia – Eastern Christianity

Luke Alexander Veronis – Missionaries Monks Martyrs – Making Disciples of All Nations

Grant DeVries – Explaining the Atonement to the Arabic Muslim in terms of Honour and Shame Potentials and Pitfalls

Contextualization of Ministry among Muslims – Arab World Ministries

Speaking of Christ’s Divinity within Muslm Cultures – Rev Dr David Teague

Archbishop Rowan Williams — to Islamic University in Islamabad

Sophia Kim — Sufism in Egypt

Iskander Tee — SIDENOTES ON INSIDERS

Vivienne Stacey — The Practice of Exorcism and Healing

 

Baptizing a Convert from Islam with an Anglican Liturgy

Here is my latest material from Anglican Compass (formerly Anglican Pastor):

I didn’t even remember the phone call. One evening when I was loafing around the house an Arabophone brother called me from a foreign country and had some questions about our small Arabophone fellowship, Kanisa. What did we believe? I answered: we had an evangelical orientation and confessed the Apostles’ and Nicene creeds. Did we belong to a particular denomination? I answered: I’m an Anglican priest and the other pastors come from Assemblies of God and Methodist backgrounds, though we welcome people from the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, ex-Muslims, and Muslim seekers too.

Read the rest of it HERE.