By Jeff Walton, February 2, 2016
Christianity and Islam together comprise the world's two largest faiths, each monotheistic and centered upon the importance of proselytization -- and in many parts of the world, they are on a collision course.
"The prospects for religious war in the next decade are extremely high unless groups like Boko Haram and ISIS are uprooted," warned Baylor University History Professor Philip Jenkins.
Jenkins, an Episcopalian, was one of seven speakers presenting at the annual Mere Anglicanism Conference January 28-30 at the Charleston Music Hall in Charleston, South Carolina. Mere Anglicanism is the kind of rare event that attracts a cross-section of participants from both the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church in North America, as well as overseas Anglicans and the local Diocese of South Carolina.
This year's conference, themed "The Cross and the Crescent: The Gospel and the Challenge of Islam" featured academics, bishops and evangelists examining the Christian response to the fast-growing global faith.
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