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  In commemoration of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, MSI Press is making the award-winning ecumenical book,   An Afternoon's Dictation  (Greenebaum), available on Kindle countdown January 18-25. In addition, the paperback edition is available from the MSI Press webstore at 1/3 off for this week:  An Afternoon's Dictation: Inclusive Revelation for the Twenty-First Century - MSI Press MSI Press Book Description:  In 1999 Steven Greenebaum felt he'd hit the wall. Fifty years old, he could not make sense of his life or the world around him. For several months he angrily demanded answers from God, if God were there. One afternoon, an inner voice told him to get a pen and paper and write. Steven then took dictation - three pages, not of commandments but guidance for leading a meaningful life.   An Afternoon's Dictation  grapples with, organizes, and deeply explores the revelations Steven received and then studied for over ten years. His sharing is N...

  One of the quiet truths of Christian Unity Week is that Christianity doesn’t stand alone. It’s part of a much older, wider family — the Abrahamic traditions — that includes Judaism and Islam. Three faiths, three histories, three ways of seeking God… and yet so much shared ground. We trace our spiritual ancestry to the same stories. We honor many of the same prophets. We wrestle with the same questions about justice, mercy, and what it means to live a life that reflects the Holy. And like any family, we’ve had our share of arguments. Sometimes the disagreements have been painful. Sometimes they’ve been about identity, power, or fear. But underneath all of that, there’s a deeper truth: we quarrel in part because we’re close. Because we recognize something of ourselves in one another. Because our stories overlap, our scriptures echo each other, and our visions of a just world often align more than we admit. Christian Unity Week invites us to remember that unity isn’t only an i...

  Christian Unity Week always reminds me of something both simple and radical: we already belong to one another. Long before we sort ourselves into denominations, traditions, cultures, or languages, we share the same breath, the same earth, the same human longing for meaning and mercy. We are one family on this planet—not metaphorically, but biologically, historically, spiritually. Religion doesn’t have to divide us. At its best, it does the opposite. Across Christian traditions, the call to unity isn’t about erasing difference. It’s about recognizing the deeper truth beneath our differences: that every person carries the image of God, and every community holds a piece of wisdom the rest of us need. During this week, Christians around the world pray for unity. But the prayer stretches beyond church walls. It reaches toward neighbors of every faith and no faith, toward all who seek peace, justice, and compassion. Unity is not uniformity. Unity is relationship. Unity is cho...