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 else was doing.  It aims to help Christians ask whether they are nearer to Crusade thinking or to Francis’ thinking.  I’ve put the link to the lecture below (What does it mean to take up the cross in the context of Islam?).  Please listen to it – this is something that really matters!