Renowned Journalist David Crumm: “there’s no site we’ve found with more courage and bold innovation”
December 6th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
We admire courageous innovation — and there’s no site we’ve found with more courage and bold innovation than — http://www.thejewsoflebanon.org — a humanitarian project launched by an Eastern Michigan University senior named Aaron-Micaël Beydoun.
He’s a Muslim, Lebanese-American student who plans to devote his life to promoting peace and religious freedom. So far, Beydoun has devoted more than a year to helping the scattered remnants of Lebanon’s Jewish population strengthen their community and rebuild their landmarks.
David Crumm, religion writer for the Detroit Free Press since 1986 and awarded the prestigious Wilbur Award (a national prize for excellence in reporting on religion) as the best columnist on religion in a major U.S. newspaper. That was David Crumm’s seventh Wilbur award over the past two decades. David Crumm is now beginning a new project, “Read the Spirit”, an innovative undertaking encompassing a network of professionals — writers, editors, photographers, artists, clergy, scholars and people from other disciplines, to build cooperative partnerships and establishing the 21st century’s “Principles of Religious Publishing”.
Seventy of our friends gathered for a national conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA in August and collectively we “nailed” these 10 Principles to a portal, a deliberate echo of the nailing in Europe half a millennium ago. As our new portal, ReadTheSpirit, expands through early 2008, we will become a global gathering place for people who find these voices helpful in their daily lives.
A presentation was given outlining the beginnings of our project, www.thejewsoflebanon.org, its necessity, and the future of our evolving endeavor. Our work has yet to begin, but we must overcome and move forward in 2008, collectively.
robert Said,
December 11, 2007 @ 3:33 am
mabruk ya khayyeh beydoun once again you are putting more light into the world with every little step
allah ma3ak et que inshallah on ira plus loin chaque jour
Dale R. Leslie Said,
November 10, 2008 @ 7:09 pm
Dixboro United Methodist Church
Rev. John L. Park, Pastor http://www.dixborochurch.org
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5221 Church Road ~ Ann Arbor, MI 48105 ~ 734.665-5632
November 11, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DIXBORO - Bishop Jonathan D. Keaton, resident bishop of the Michigan Area of the United Methodist Church, will be speaking at the three worship services of the Dixboro United Methodist Church, 9, 10 and 11 a.m., Sunday, December 7, 2008. Bishop Keaton enters his fifth year as resident bishop of the Michigan Area.
“Bishop Keaton’s visit to the Dixboro United Methodist Church is the culmination of our 150th anniversary, year-long celebration,” commented John L. Park, church pastor, “He is highly respected and loved by all who know him and he has chartered a path to work for Christian unity.”
Keaton was elected to the episcopacy in 1996. Prior to that, he served as a District Superintendent in the Northern Illinois Conference. He was a member of the conference staff responsible for monitoring the church’s stand on social issues, providing support and encouragement for ethnic local churches and promoting spiritual formation. Keaton also has served churches in Chicago and Rockford, Illinois.
He was a teaching assistant at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, where he earned a Master’s of Divinity and Doctorate in Sacred Theology. Keaton teaches in numerous conference Schools of Christian Mission. Currently, Bishop Keaton chairs the denomination’s Strengthening the Black Church for the 21 st Century Committee.
Bishop Keaton has traveled extensively in support of world missions.
It is deja vu for some members at Dixboro who remember then Bishop Edsal Ammons spending a Sunday at the church in honor of the congregation’s 125th anniversary. The Dixboro UMC is located along Plymouth Road, three miles east of U.S. 23.
Bishop Keaton and his wife, Beverly, have three children: Jonathan II, Tandreka and Anaya. They have one grandchild, Maliah Hope Keaton.
For further information on Bishop Keaton’s visit to the Dixboro UMC, please call the church office at 734.665-5632 or log on to http://www.dixborochurch.org