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FIRST EDITION A8 The Pantagraph Saturday, September 19, 2009 www. pantagraph.com Muslims find new fast partners: Christians Suspect in '98 Yale killing still scarred question traditional evangelical theology. While fasting is part of Christian tradition, it isn't exactly a widespread prac -tice. Some college students from different faiths have started interfaith "Fast-A-Thons" during Ramadan to raise money to fight poverty. But that usually involves fasting for a day, hot committing to an entire month.

In announcing his Ramadan fast plans on his blog last month, McLaren wrote, "We are not doing so in order to become Muslims: we are deeply committed Christians. But as Christians, we want to come close to our Muslim neighbors and to share this important part of life with them." The goal is to join Muslims in the observance as "a God-honoring expression of peace, fellowship and neighborli-ness," he wrote. By Eric Gorski ASSOCIATED PRESS Like Muslims worldwide, Ben Ries has refrained from food and drink from sunrise to sundown in an act of self-restraint during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which ends this weekend. Each evening, the 31-year-old Ries joins Muslim families in a room above a hardware store in Belling-ham, to find fellowship and break the fast with a handful of dates and a welcome glass of water. Only Ries is not a Muslim.

He is pastor of 70-member Sterling Drive Church of Christ and a self-described committed Christian who just a few weeks ago had to turn to Google to find a Muslim in his community. Ries is among a small group of Christians who've joined well- known evangelical author and speaker Brian McLaren in observing a Ramadan fast, opening a new chapter in interfaith relations between two traditions often at odds. To McLaren and his Christian and Muslim fasting partners, it's a neighborly gesture of solidarity that deepens their respective faiths and sends a mes1 sage about finding peace and common ground. But the project also has faced fierce criticism. Some evangelicals say that fasting alongside Muslims at Ramadan, however well-intentioned, is a dangerous blurring of the lines and runs contrary to Christianity.

McLaren, 53, is the godfather of the "emerging" or "emergent" church, a loose -knit movement that seeks to recover ancient Christian worship practices and, in some cases, kii'i i ill 1 lf 7 li A. Associated Press file photo James Van de Velde, shown standing on the Mall in Washington. D.C., once was considered a suspect in the Dec. 4, 1998, stabbing death of 21-year-old German Yale student Suzanne Jovin, but DN A tests rule him out as a suspect in 2001. This time, the suspect wasn't called a suspect until he was arrested.

But the last time a Yale student was killed near campus. James Van de Velde wasn't so fortunate. From the start, he was the favorite candidate of Connecticut's New Haven police for the frenzied stabbing death of a young woman 11 years ago. Though the Yale lecturer was never charged and the case is still unsolved, the attention ruined his reputation, he says, and got him fired. He says there's a reason investigators have been so tightlipped about the killing of Annie Le: They're afraid of making the same mistake twice.

"We don't want to destroy people's reputations," Police Chief James Lewis said earlier this week. Lewis, who was hired last year and not involved in the 1998 case, was explaining why officers had put a lid on the murder investigation of Le, a 24-year-old doctoral student in pharmacology. On Thursday, police arrested co-worker Raymond Clark III but said little about motive or Motive unknown A Connecticut police chief says authorities may never know the motive for the killing of a Yale University graduate student whose body was found hidden behind a wall. New Haven police Chief James Lewis told local television stations Friday the only person who knows the reason for the murder of Le is, Clark, the man charged with the crime. ii in nun in ii ii.i ii mil i i i i i.ii ii ii innimniiii In 1998, Suzanne Jovin, a 21-year-old political science major from Germany, died after being attacked in a prosperous neighborhood north of the campus.

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