Founder/Patron
Paul-Gordon Chandler
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Paul-Gordon
Chandler is an author, a U.S. Episcopal
priest and interfaith advocate who has lived and
worked in the Middle East for many years. He grew
up in Senegal, West Africa, and has lived and
worked extensively throughout the Islamic world
in churches and in leadership roles within
religious publishing and faith-based relief &
development agencies.
He is currently
the Rector of the Episcopal Church of St. John
the Baptist/Maadi in Cairo, Egypt, the
international English-speaking Episcopal church
in southern Cairo whose international
congregation of over 20 nationalities welcomes
people from many denominations and church
traditions, primarily from the diplomatic, aid
and business communities (see
www.maadichurch.org) |
Paul-Gordon Chandler with the
Egyptian actor
Omar Sharif at Caravan Art Exhibition
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Paul-Gordon Chandler’s bestselling book, titled
Pilgrims of Christ on the Muslim Road: Exploring a New
Path Between Two Faiths, is in the field of
Christian and Muslim relations and focuses on what can be learned from the life and thought of Mazhar
Mallouhi, the well known Syrian Arab novelist and “Sufi
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. His next book, titled Songs In Waiting:
Spiritual Reflections on Christ's Birth...A Celebration
of Middle Eastern Canticles, was published in July
2009 (Morehouse Publishing). He has begun work
on another book which will focus on the spiritual
journey of Kahlil Gibran, the early 20th century
Lebanese writer, artist and mystic of Christian
background (best known in the West for his book "The
Prophet").
As a patron of the arts, a personal passion of
Paul-Gordon’s is to explore and encourage the interplay
between Faith and the Arts—and more specifically
within the context of interfaith, encouraging Muslims
and Christians to journey together through the Arts. In
this regard, he started an informal initiative called
Caravan
to serve as a catalyst to build bridges of understanding
and respect between West and East, Christians and
Muslims, through the Arts.
More information on Paul-Gordon is available on
www.paulgordonchandler.com
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