St. James the Great Episcopal Church welcomes Jihad Turk as the first lecturer in our 2016 Lenten series, “Islam and Its Relationship to Christianity and Judaism.” In this introduction to our series, he gives an overview of Islam and its similarities and differences in relationship to Christianity. Jihad Turk is the president of Bayan Claremont Islamic Graduate School, and has dedicated the past decade to improving the relations between the Muslim community and other faith traditions in Southern California.