Paul-Gordon Chandler

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name = Paul-Gordon Chandler


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birthdate = 1964
occupation = Author, Episcopal Priest, Interfaith Activist

Paul-Gordon Chandler (born 1964) is an author, a U.S. Episcopal priest and interfaith activist living and working in the Middle East. He grew up in Muslim West Africa (Senegal), and has lived and worked extensively throughout the Islamic world with churches, religious publishing and Christian relief and development agencies. His most recent book is "Pilgrims of Christ on the Muslim Road: Exploring a New Path Between Two Faiths".

Life

He is currently the Rector of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist/Maadi in Cairo, Egypt, within the Episcopal Diocese of Egypt & North Africa. St. John’s Church/Maadi is the international English-speaking Episcopal/Anglican church in southern Cairo with an international congregation of over 20 nationalities from many denominations and church traditions.

Immediately prior to this role, he served as the President/CEO of Partners International (PI), an international and ecumenical Christian non-profit that exists to assist and empower indigenous Christian holistic non-governmental organizations in over 70 countries in areas where Christians are a minority. Before serving with PI, he was the U.S. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of International Bible Society (IBS), a non-profit involved in publishing, distributing and translating the Bible in over 500 languages, and the sponsor of the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible.

Prior to that he worked with the Anglican Church for five years. From 1995-1997, he worked with SPCK in London, England as the Director of SPCK Worldwide, an historic Anglican literature non-profit agency involved in Christian publishing and communications in the U.K. and throughout the Two-Thirds World. Before this, from 1993-1995, he served in Tunisia, North Africa, as the Rector of St. George's Episcopal/Anglican Church in Tunis/Carthage and Chaplain to the British Embassy. St. George’s Church was the only English-speaking church in Tunisia, a Muslim majority country, and served as the international church congregation to internationals from over 30 nationalities living and working in Tunisia. Prior to that, he worked with the International Bible Society as Director of International Programs and served for several years directing translation, publishing and distribution projects throughout the world, in over 100 countries.

He is actively engaged in exploring and encouraging the interplay between “Faith and the Arts” within the context of interfaith, encouraging Muslims and Christians to journey together through the Arts. He started an initiative called Caravan that serves as a catalyst toward building bridges of understanding and respect between Christians and Muslims, West and East, through the Arts—visual and literary.

He studied at Wheaton College where he majored in Biblical/Theological Studies (B.A. 1986) and also at Chichester Theological College (Church of England institution) in England.

Books

Paul-Gordon Chandler’s most recent book, titled "'Pilgrims of Christ on the Muslim Road: Exploring a New Path Between Two Faiths", is in the field of Christian and Islamic relations and focuses on what we can be learned from the life and thought of Mazhar Mallouhi, the well known Syrian Arab novelist and “Muslim follower of Christ”. His first book was "God’s Global Mosaic, What We Can Learn from Christians Around the World", published by InterVarsity Press (IVP) in January 2000. Additionally he has written numerous articles in various publications.

Listing

*"God's Global Mosaic, What We Can Learn from Christians Around the World" (ISBN 0-830822518)
*"Pilgrims of Christ on the Muslim Road: Exploring a New Path Between Two Faiths" (ISBN 1-561-01317-X)

External links

* [http://www.paulgordonchandler.com/ Paul-Gordon Chandler's Website]
* [http://www.maadichurchstjohn.org/ The Church of St. John the Baptist in Maadi, Cairo, Egypt]