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Director of Friends Center, Guilford College

Max Carter

A recorded Friends minister, he serves on the Board of the American Friends Service Committee and the Advisory Board of the Earlham School of Religion.

Peace Talks: Does religion help or hurt?

Mideast peace talks resume this week, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveling to Egypt and Israel for negotiations between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Is religion helping or hurting the attempt to forge peace between the Jewish state and the Palestinians?

A few years ago, I visited one of the Jewish settlements deep in the heart of the Palestinian West Bank, a settlement that is home to several thousand religious Zionists committed to preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state there... READ MORE