The Outer Court
Scott GustafsonExtremism, the Middle East, missiology, the church and occasionally cycling.
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Fellowship of the Borderline Insane
This account of running the Dead 2 Red relay race from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea in Jordan was published in JO magazing in 2011. I don’t know what I was thinking. Bicycles are way better.
Albert Einstein has been attributed with saying...
Killing Extremists with Kindness
This article is a fascinating look into the principles of deradicalization and best practices in dealing with extremists on display in a Lebanese prison. Jayson Casper reports for Christianity Today from Lebanon’s Roumieh prison, where two...
A War Letter from Lebanon
This, from a friend in Lebanon, published recently in Evangelical Focus gets to the heart of the matter on faith in action in times of war and conflict. Lebanon, perhaps unlike most any other place, has been a test tube for conflict, sectar...
Theological Jet Lag and a Theology of War
I have been traveling lately. In and out of the Middle East, the Holy Land and Europe. Everywhere it seems, there is war. Iran, Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel/Palestine, Syria and Iraq. Conflict, strife, militarization, checkpoints,...
Redefining Belonging in Fractured Moral Landscapes
Our chapter on deradicalization and micro-peace in the Levant in a new volume entitled Religious Authorities and Practices of Conflict Resolution (Routledge, 2025) explores how a Christian community constituted itself around the normative t...
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Missiologist and Extremism researcher. Middle East nerd. Ambassador Warren Clark Fellow, Churches for Middle East Peace, PhD in Theology and deradicalization, member of Extreme Beliefs research group at Vrije Universteit.
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