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Why Did the Women Disciple the Men? by Omar Rikabi

June 9, 2021

Back when it was “a different time” – in this case, just 1992 – the pastor warmed up our mens’…


Being a Waffle House Church in the Storm by Omar Al-Rikabi

February 20, 2020

The folks at Waffle House have a whole system for keeping restaurants open in a storm. They know how to do natural disasters. We need to be a “Waffle House church,” first offering people the body and blood of Jesus Christ, then offering a full menu of the faith even in the midst the storm.


Interview: The Advent Mission with Omar Al-Rikabi

October 22, 2018

Recently Wesleyan Accent spoke with Rev. Omar Al-Rikabi, an occasional Wesleyan Accent contributor and author of The Advent Mission, a…


My Muslim Problem by Omar Rikabi

December 12, 2015

Christmas reminds us God is redeeming all our little human stories into his great divine story through Jesus Christ. This is the good news of the Gospel. The nature of Jesus’s incarnation—God becoming human to be in relationship with each of us—puts us face to face with real people with real stories. When we choose to distort, ignore, or not enter into another’s story, we deny the incarnation and change what is happening.


He Had a Name by Omar Rikabi

September 28, 2015

The first name given in creation was Adam. It means humanity.

The Scripture story tells us that God, through Jesus Christ, created all of humanity in his image and breathed into us the breath of life.

I thought of Adam when I saw the first hashtag given to Aylan’s story: Humanity Washed Ashore.