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March 2026

March 05, 2026

Rethinking Creation: Misogyny In Abrahamic Traditions

Interfaith dialogues can help people not only better see and appreciates the commonalities and differences...

February 2026

February 03, 2026

My Engagements With World Religions: Hinduism

One of my friends in high school, Sam, was a Hindu. Because, at that time,...

August 2024

August 22, 2024

Dispelling The Illusion

One of the great truths agreed upon by many religious traditions is that the world...

June 2023

June 07, 2023

Book Review: Abdul Ghaffar Khan, My Life and Struggle.

Abdul Ghaffar Khan, My Life and Struggle. Trans. Imtiaz Ahmad Sahibzada (Roli Books: Greater Noida,...

January 2023

January 16, 2023

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Interfaith Witness

Martin Luther King Jr. understood that the civil rights movement needed to bring all of...

March 2020

March 11, 2020

Engaging Morality Vs. Following Legalism

Many, if not most people, have a very simple understanding of morality. They reduce everything...

September 2019

September 24, 2019

Will All Be Saved? The Question Which Will Not Go Away

How many people will be saved? Will it be a few? Many? Most of humanity?...

September 18, 2019

Christians Need To Acknowledge Others Worship God With Them

When philosophers and theologians talk about the existence of God, they talk about God in...

July 2019

July 25, 2019

The Chinese Rites, The Amazon Synod, And The So-Called Traditionalists Attack On Catholic Tradition

When the Jesuits began their mission to China, they had to find a way to...

February 2019

February 25, 2019

Engaging Others Through Comparative Theology

There are many ways Christians find themselves engaging and reflecting upon the nature of the...

February 06, 2019

Pope Francis and The Plurality of Religions

Vladimir Solovyov, in his essay, “On Counterfeits,” discussing various misappropriations of the Christian faith which...

November 2018

November 23, 2018

Inter-Religious Dialogue Is Not What Many Think It Is

Many people, upon hearing the term “interfaith” or “inter-religious” dialogue, misunderstand what exactly is being...

August 2018

August 16, 2018

Dealing With The Paradox of God: Part Three of Three

God is one, simple, transcendent, divine principle. We talk about God with many names, but...

August 15, 2018

Dealing With the Paradox of God: Part Two of Three

How can we know God if he transcends us? In the Kabbalah, the answer comes...

July 2017

July 03, 2017

The Universal Tao On Avarice

C.S. Lewis, following principles of “natural theology,” suggested that there was a normative, objective morality...

March 2017

March 08, 2017

United Under One God, Christians Should Work For Peace And Justice With Muslims, Jews, And All Others Of Goodwill

A Black Muslim I knew in High School gave me the Koran which I still...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

The Christian Problem

In nineteenth century Russia, and throughout Europe, the relationship between Christians and Jews were strained,...

January 16, 2017

Not Just European: The Traditional Affirmation Of All Cultures In Christ

Christian missionaries have long wrestled with the fact that those people they evangelize often have...

October 2016

October 05, 2016

The Embrace of Love (Part 3 of 3)

This is the third part of a three part series reflecting upon the universal spiritual...

October 04, 2016

The Embrace of Love (Part 2 of 3)

This is the second part of a three part series reflecting upon the universal spiritual...

September 2016

September 19, 2016

Ante-Nicene Ressourcement: The One God Worshiped By All

In the martyrdom of St. Polycarp, we read one of the most common charges made...

September 05, 2016

Top Ten Stories of Doctor Who With Religious Elements and Themes

Doctor Who has been my favorite television series (and audio series) since I watched a...

August 2016

August 22, 2016

The Interfaith Significance of Alexander the Great

Interfaith dialogue is a constant element of any religious faith. Such dialogue, however, tends not...

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