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New Institute and blog series catches up with one of Christianity's most significant voices regarding the challenge of Islam. I was updating the Facing Islam blog last week, and noticed (again) that Mark Durie had not posted anything on his blog for many months now (late June 2017, to be exact). This concerned me, as I consider him to be one of the most important Christian writers on Islam, so I ventured over to his site to see if I could find out the reason for this apparent absence. I found it, in an unassuming blog post from June 20, 2017, in which Rev. Dr. Durie announces a new organization and platform designed to provide resources to help people "understand global religious currents and their impact on areas such as public policy, human rights, security and conflict." The full description sets forth the Interface Institute's purpose: Introducing The Interface Institute   Readers of markdurie.com blog posts may wish to connect with the resources of the Interface ...

"Dozens of people spoke out... against a homework assignment made at an Elgin-area U46 school in which it was asserted Christian, Muslim and Jewish faiths all believe in the same God..." "Several people attacked the assignment, quoting Bible and Quran verses to support their argument that Christians do not follow the same God as Muslims." Bravo for these informed and motivated Christian parents and citizens, who are not afraid to speak truth to power, to rebuke the sinister establishment and Islamic forces arrayed against them. The "Same God" teaching is a cornerstone of Islamic dawah (proselytization), and is a deceptive "Trojan Horse" theological belief which, on the basis of seeking peace, actually sets up Christians to commit apostasy and deny Jesus Christ, thus cutting themselves off from the grace of God. Mark Durie warns about this false teaching in his book Revelation: Do We Worship the Same God? : The traditional Islamic view is that if ...

"More troubling are the growing efforts to Islamize Christmas. The re-theologizing of Christmas is based on the false premise that the Jesus of the Bible is the Jesus (Isa) of the Koran. This religious fusion, sometimes referred to as 'Chrislam', is gaining ground in a West that has become biblically illiterate..." Apostate Western Christian "churches" in Europe and the British Isles are falling all over themselves to not just avoid offending Muslims, but to affirm Islam, inviting Muslims to read from the Koran — in the churches. Western Christians would rather deny Christ than deny Muhammad. Such apostates show that they have been signed with the Mark of the Beast on their foreheads, as they assent to a blasphemy which completely removes the grace of Christ from their hearts.  The below extensively documented and cross-linked article tracks the collapse of Western Christian Europe. What will 2018 bring? This is not a Happy New Year. This is a new year which...

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The apostasy of "Christian" churches in the West continues to accelerate, as these flaming heretics seek to outdo one another in affirming Muhammad and Islam, while at the same time showing they are ashamed of the Lord Jesus Christ by openly denying Him. With each such blasphemous interfaith escapade, they further cut themselves off from the True Vine, and are in danger of being burned. So many such reports come out of the United Kingdom these days (some noted below), that it is clear that Britain has rejected Christ and is in a terminal phase of post-Christian collapse, with the shadow of the black flag of Islam looming over the once sanctified Isles.  Small pockets of Orthodox Christianity are persevering, but apart from a miracle , the country itself seems doomed. I have inverted the original order of Robert Spencer's post on Jihad Watch, by placing his introduction, comprised of Qur'anic texts denying the foundations of the Christian Faith, below the incisive rep...

Recent trends in Poland, Hungary, Croatia and Georgia point to a "re-traditionalization that’s going on all over the world in response to the virulently anti-cultural, anti-traditional dynamics of secularism and secular globalization." Linked to these signs of a revitalized Traditional Christian Worldview is the rejection by many of these same countries of the EU's suicidal immigration policies. In Poland recently hundreds of thousands turned out in protest of mass Muslim immigration and the threat of Islam: Czech Republic Joins Poland, Hungary and Slovakia in Refusing EU-Imposed Migrants Poland to Muslims: "Here, Jesus is our KING..so get out!'  (VIDEO) In sad and pathetic contrast, in Western Europe they respond to Islamic jihad terror attacks and Muslim rape gangs with candles and teddy bears. The Reawakening of Christian Civilization in Eastern Europe by Steve Turley, Turley Talks , Jun 11, 2017 Recently, there’s been some very impressive examples of the reaw...

"[Pastor Jim] Melnyk said he has personally worshiped Allah with Muslims during interfaith gatherings in Raleigh... " Journalist Leo Hohmann shines a light on the galloping apostasy in mainline Protestant churches, as typified in this story of how good intentions and generous hearts, cut off from the truth and fullness of the apostolic faith, can lead Christians to embrace a false god, false prophet, and false religion. I look at this travesty as a 'teachable moment', and have provided commentary throughout the article. Related : 'Breaking of the Crosses' in North Carolina : Christian leaders welcome conversion of church into mosque Worshipping with Muslims? — "Our ultimate goal and divine mandate is not co-existence with Muslims but their conversion—as it is for all the children of men." —Fr. Lawrence Farley Christian pastor in Bible Belt admits personally worshiping Allah Muslim deity takes over church as leaders claim to honor 'same god' ...

"As much as possible we should preach Christ. But that doesn’t mean we should pretend Islam is what its naive defenders want it to be. The burning flesh and severed limbs of innocents are there in the heart of it... "Islam has a problem, and it has had a problem since its very inception. It is at war against whatever people it comes across. It slaughters in the Philippines. It slaughters in India. It slaughters in Myanmar. It slaughters in Nigeria. It slaughters in the Sudan. It has done these things from the beginning, and it is all right there in the Quran, let alone the hadith." Out of the millions of words posted at Rod Dreher's blog, the below comments from one of his readers, Annie, come with a special weight. She writes as a Western Liberal who flirted with Islam. And she has some challenging things to say to those who believe Islam is a religion of peace, equivalent or even superior to Christianity. She does not explicitly address the 'Same God' belie...

"The new Sobieskis won’t necessarily be soldiers. They will mainly be cultural warriors and Christian activists willing to put themselves on the front lines of the ideological war against this new incursion [of Islam]." —  Miltiades Varvounis, author of  Jan Sobieski: The King Who Saved Europe From an insightful interview with the author of a new biography of the great Polish King Jan Sobieski, whose armies defeated the forces of Islam at the gates of Vienna in 1683, ending the Muslim hope for a direct military invasion of Europe. Read all the way to the end for Varvounis' keen analysis of Islam's new invasion of Europe, the West, and the entire globe. The Warrior-King Who Saved Europe From Islam By Carrie Gress, National Catholic Register , May 31, 2016: Poland’s kings are a fascinating bunch, ranging from great scoundrels like Boleslaw the Bold, who hacked up St. Stanislaw, to larger than life characters like King Kazimierz, who raised 14th century Poland to greatn...