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he lived in the shadows of
her widely beloved husband,
the Rev. James Lyons. But
Christine Lyons didn't mind,
given the love and admiration she had
for him — a Christian minister who
cared more about Judaism's well being
than some Jews.
Rev. Lyons, founder of the
Ecumenical Institute for Jewish-
Christian Studies in Southfield 16
years ago, died
last year at age
60 from com-
plications of
diabetes.
Addressing
150 people at
the Jewish
National Fund's
annual dinner
Nov. 8,
Christine Lyons
said:
"When someone dies, you don't
lose them — you absorb them. Each
of us here tonight absorbed part of
Jim — maybe his passion, maybe his
joy, maybe his scholarship, maybe his
kindness, maybe his sense of justice."
The dinner, at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, honored Rev. Lyons'
legacy as the not-for-profit educa-
tional institute's executive director.
David Lyons accepted the JNF's
1999 Keter Shem Tov (Crown of
the Good Name) Award in his
father's memory.
The 11 Keter Shem Tov Award
winners over the years earned their
"good name" by a lifetime of service
to their community, the Jewish people
and Israel.
A battler of preju-
dice while urging
peaceful co-existence
and religious tolerance,
Rev. Lyons was known
as the Protestant min-
ister who taught about
the Holocaust. He
would tell his young
charges that "as a
Christian, I wasn't
responsible for the
Holocaust, but I am
responsible for it never
happening again.
Rabbi Norman Roman presents the Keter Shem Tov
The native
Award in Rev. James Lyons' memory to his son David
Detroiter often took
and wife Christine Lyons.
Jewish
National
Fund lauds
memory of
Rev. James
Lyons.
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his booming voice into Bible Belt
churches in Ohio and Indiana to talk
about Israel, anti-Semitism and
Judaism.
His kinship with kids was special.
He hoped they would dispel stereo-
types in a world enriched with friend-
ship, not hatred.
Rev. Lyons built bridges of under-
standing through a magnetic person-
ality and a commitment to ecu-
menism. "Jim wanted to bring people
together in a non-conversional way so
they knew about each other," said
Leonard Trunsky,
an institute
trustee and
Temple Israel
member.
An advocate of
Israel's right to
exist, Rev. Lyons
visited the Holy
Land some 40
times. "That's
where he felt at
home — in
Yerushalayim (Jerusalem)," his wife said.
The Ecumenical Institute's David
Blewett, current executive director,
recalled Rev. Lyons' skill for getting to
the roots of interfaith issues, no mat-
ter how tangled they were.
"Jim was interested in finding out
where we agreed and disagreed and
then celebrating these differences —
learning all we could from our dis-
agreements."
In presenting the Keter Shem Toy
Award, Rabbi Norman Roman of
Temple Kol Ami spoke movingly
about Rev. Lyons' utter goodness and
nourishing soul. "May you all," he
said, "be like him and indeed create a
better world." E.