I want to commend all who have facilitated this important conference. We in the World Evangelical Alliance believe this event, Christ at the Checkpoint is a direct response to Jesus' call for us to be peacemakers and ambassadors of reconciliation...

I called my good friend, Jim Wallis, the leader of Sojourners. As we talked about the situation, Jim asked where I was currently located. I told him I was in New York City. Jim said he was amazed, as he had just been discussing my name with Imam Feisal in NYC.

That telephone conversation led to an introduction to Imam Feisal, who in 2012 was named one of the hundred most influential people in the world by Time magazine.