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Scott Gustafson

Extremism, the Middle East, missiology, the church and occasionally cycling.

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Religion and Power in Lebanon: The Cost of “Our” Country

I sat in a smoky room in a quiet, secluded enclave in the mountains of Lebanon one evening a couple years ago, invited to meet some Maronite church officials. They were strategizing about the next election, how to leverage church influence,...

13 days ago
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Peace on Paper is No Peace at All

Friends in Lebanon laugh about the current ceasefire, as if it is just words. While markets ironically respond positively to these meaningless pronouncements and the news cycle is abated for the moment, Lebanese still hear the buzz of drone...

23 days ago
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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.

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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...

2 months ago
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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...

2 months ago
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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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