Ida’s Blog

The Centre is now up and running.  See  cmcsoxford.org.uk. 
Our inauguration was on Tuesday.  The subject was “Qur’an and Bible – reading the one in the context of the other” – so I gave a reflection on reading the Bible alongside the Qur’an – ‘Qur’anic challenges for the Bible reader’ – and Prof Mustansir Mir from [...]

If anyone who prays for me reads this – please do pray for wisdom in house-buying.  We’ve found what we think is the right house and had an offer accepted, but the survey has indicated a lot more work needed than we’d thought.  We’re in the process of getting estimates on dealing with damp etc. [...]

I’ve just been listening to a lecture I gave at CMS recently.  It is a reflection on what enabled Francis of Assisi, in the midst of the Crusades, to go and talk to the Muslim sultan about Jesus rather than going to fight him in the name of Jesus – which was what nearly everyone [...]

I’ve just got online at my new office, at St Stephen’s House, where we will be opening our new Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.  We’ll be an independent, Christian-based, research centre, cooperating with various people and colleges in and near Oxford.  We hope to facilitate all sorts of people – Christian, Muslims, people of other [...]