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February 2026

February 10, 2026

Why You Cannot Coerce Religion

According to Luther, Christianity cannot be coerced. Not just should not be coerced, but cannot...

January 2025

January 16, 2025

A Religion You Should Know About

In reading up on the civil war in Syria, I learned that the recently overthrown...

March 2023

March 09, 2023

Artificial Intelligence, the Golem, & the Genie

The development of artificial intelligence is filling many people with alarm, raising a host of...

November 2022

November 09, 2022

Muslims vs. Their Woke Allies

The Left considers Muslims to be an oppressed group and so supports them in the...

July 2022

July 20, 2022

An Islamic Take on LGBTQ Identity

A Muslim woman explains why a Muslim's identity can only be based on religion, not...

February 2019

February 12, 2019

Pope Says God Wills the Diversity of Religions

At the Pope's recent visit to Abu Dhabi, he and the Muslim Grand Imam...

March 2018

March 23, 2018

Islam & Intersectionality

According to the leftist tenets of intersectionality, the interlocking dynamics of power and privilege mean...

December 2017

December 12, 2017

Trump Moves U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and so Fulfills Bible Prophecy?

President Trump's announcement that he will move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem...

May 2017

May 26, 2017

Why is the left so sympathetic to Islam?

Why are liberals and leftists always defending Islam? They have nothing but scorn for Christians...

May 05, 2017

Open communion that includes Muslims

In Atlanta during Holy Week, the entire diocese of the Episcopal Church held a Mass in...

March 2017

March 07, 2017

Will Islam become the world’s largest religion?

A new study says that Islam will pass Christianity as the world's largest religion by...

February 2017

February 13, 2017

Chicken sacrifices and overturning the travel ban

We now have an answer questions about the appeals court's legal reasoning in throwing out...

January 2017

January 18, 2017

Nationalism joins Islam as reasons for Christian persecution

Open Door, an organization that monitors Christian persecution, has released its annual report for 2016,...

June 2016

June 07, 2016

Islamic exceptionalism

We keep hearing, "All religions are essentially the same." But no they aren't! That sentiment...

May 2016

May 31, 2016

Those religious-extremist Anglicans

Yes, American foreign policy is a laughing-stock abroad, but that means at least some of...

April 2016

April 06, 2016

The varieties of irrationalism

In September 2006, Pope Benedict XVI gave a speech at the University of Regensburg, which...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

Muslims agree that we do not worship the same God

Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? Catholics, liberals, and some evangelicals are saying,...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

More on Muslims converting to Christianity

International journalist Uwe Siemon-Netto, a confessional Lutheran, has more details about Muslims converting to Christianity. ...

November 2015

November 05, 2015

State church says not to evangelize Muslims

The Protestant state church in the Rhineland has issued a statement saying that Christians should...

September 2015

September 02, 2015

Did the Q’uran pre-date Muhammed?

Carbon dating of what has been called the world's oldest Q'uran suggests that the manuscript...

February 2015

February 06, 2015

Is Christianity morally equivalent to radical Islam?

At the National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama asserted the moral equivalence of Christianity and radical...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

The End Times according to Islam

A major element in today's jihadist movement is the Islamic doctrine of the End Times,...

December 2012

December 04, 2012

“In a struggle against all the musicians of the world”

The nation of Mali has Africa's richest musical tradition and most vibrant musical talent. But...

November 2012

November 07, 2012

Islamo-Christian civilization?

Some people are objecting to the notion that we have a "Judeo-Christian" civilization, arguing instead...

October 2012

October 08, 2012

"Anti-Christianism" TV

Maria-TV is a new Egyptian television station, all of whose employees are women. Though it's...

September 2012

September 20, 2012

Now a French magazine ridicules Mohammad

First an American puts up a YouTube video inflaming the Muslim world and now a...

September 17, 2012

Google reposts anti-Islam video

The White House asked Google, which owns YouTube, to take down the 14-minute "trailer"--some people...

September 14, 2012

Who really made that anti-Muslim movie

It turns out that the man who made that reportedly salacious movie about Mohammed, The...

May 2012

May 25, 2012

Muslims’ discovery to collapse Christianity?

Muslims are hailing the discovery of a version of the apocryphal Gospel of Barnabus that...

April 2012

April 20, 2012

Mormonism & Islam

Brigham Young University has its first non-Mormon student body president. He's a Muslim. This is...