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December 2022

December 20, 2022

A non-Christian Christmas

"The New Testament in Context Lesson 1: “We Are Responsible for Our Own...

November 2022

November 15, 2022

What will count in the long term?

The week-to-week functioning of the Interpreter Foundation owes a very great deal to...

October 2022

October 25, 2022

Dishonesty (or incompetence) on public display

Gotcha! I'll bet that, judging by the title, you expected this to be...

May 2022

May 05, 2022

Revelation, Divine and Human

*** We bade farewell to our tour group this evening. It always...

March 2021

March 15, 2021

The Qur’an on the Fall of Lucifer

Below is my translation of Qur’an 2:30-38. It is not identical to the...

December 2020

December 23, 2020

Two Hundred and Fifteen Years Ago, Today

Perhaps, had he not been born so close to the superholiday of Christmas,...

December 04, 2020

Mary and the Infant Jesus in the Qur’an (My Translation), Plus a Note on Reductionism

My column for this week in the Deseret News: "How the Annunciation...

October 2020

October 29, 2020

Reacting to the recent Islamist terror attacks in France

When the French middle school teacher Samuel Paty was murdered on 16 October 2020 in...

October 18, 2020

Revision 6.10a “The West achieves dominance” (addendum)

It's commonly believed among Muslims that the Qur’an cannot be translated. Not that...

October 14, 2020

Revision 6.10 “The West achieves dominance”

As Muslims began to realize the extent of Western technical and material superiority,...

October 13, 2020

Revision 6.9 “Entering the Modern Period”

Why was Napoleon Bonaparte's conquest of Egypt so important? A Western nation had...

October 12, 2020

Revision 6.8 “The Modern Period, from 1800 to the Present”

For convenience's sake, Marshall Hodgson chose 1800 as the beginning of what he...

September 2020

September 20, 2020

Revision 5.7 “Islamic Law” (F)

This is important because Islamic law covers a far wider range of actions...

September 19, 2020

Revision 5.6 “Islamic Law” (E)

Of course, there was always the danger that an irresponsible, ignorant, or incompetent...

September 18, 2020

Revision 5.5 “Islamic Law” (D)

Over the course of many years, students of the traditions about Muhammad and...

September 17, 2020

Revision 5.4 “Islamic Law” (C)

Actually, what I have been saying is an oversimplification. It was only gradually...

September 16, 2020

Revision 5.3 “Islamic Law” (B)

The opposite of sunna, first in pre-Islamic Arabia and ultimately within Islam itself,...

September 15, 2020

Revision 5.2 “Islamic Law” (A)

Making Arabic the language of administration in the empire was part of a...

September 12, 2020

Revision 4.25 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 5, Conclusion)

This focus upon submission to the inscrutable will of God as the characteristic...

September 11, 2020

Revision 4.24 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 4)

Islam insists on an absolute gulf, an unbridgeable chasm, between God and everything...

September 09, 2020

Revision 4.23 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 3)

Islam is an absolutely rigorous, pure monotheism. "To God alone is true worship...

September 09, 2020

Revision 4.22 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 2)

I have already hinted in this chapter at some of the differences between...

September 07, 2020

Revision 4.21 “Contrasting Islam and Latter-day Saint Teaching” (Part 1)

So far, I have emphasized the similarities between Islam and Christianity. Specifically, I...

September 07, 2020

Revision 4.20 “Some Similarities between the Qur’an and Latter-day Saint Scripture” (Part 3)

There are some parallels that are still closer. "Those that cry lies to...

September 06, 2020

Revision 4.19 “Some Similarities between the Qur’an and Latter-day Saint Scripture” (Part 2)

The entire twelfth chapter of the Qur'an is devoted to a beautiful retelling...

September 05, 2020

Revision 4.18 “Some Similarities between the Qur’an and Latter-day Saint Scripture” (Part 1)

Some readers will already have noticed a number of similarities between the Qur'an...

September 04, 2020

Revision 4.17 “Jihad”

This is roughly how the relevant text read in my old book Abraham...

September 03, 2020

Revision 4.16 “The Hajj”

It is incumbent upon every Muslim who can afford to do so to...

September 02, 2020

Revision 4.15 “Almsgiving and fasting in Islam, preceded by a bit more on prayer”

Remarkably, although the duty of prayer is often mentioned in the Qur'an, that...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

Nature and “Natural Theology”

Here's a passage from Alister E. McGrath, A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for...