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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut-Two prominent evangelical Christians praised their dialogue with Muslim leaders on Thursday at the end of a three-day conference seeking ways to ease tensions between the world's two largest faiths.Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, and Geoff Tunnicliffe, World Evangelical Alliance international director, said some in their ranks had criticized their participation as a concession to Islam.But both told the final session they were able to openly discuss their religious differences with Muslim participants while agreeing to work to find more common ground with them."Our differences are deep and real," said Anderson of the Washington-based association."But I have been especially impressed this week with the comfortable candor with which Muslims and Christians have clearly stated their own doctrines to one another.""It has been good to sit together and build new friendships," said Tunnicliffe, who is based in Vancouver.Evangelicals and Muslims are not natural partners. Some Muslim preachers charge U.S. evangelicals with waging war against Islam and trying to convert them. Some evangelical preachers accuse Muslims of worshiping a false god.Evangelicals have also generally been less active than other Christians in dialogue with Islam. "This is not part of our normal repertoire," said David Neff, editor-in-chief of the widely read evangelical magazine Christianity Today.To read more go to:
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