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February 2017

February 02, 2017

Its Not a Muslim Ban – Its Worse

Atlanta airport, T-Gates. A radio talk show features a debate on President Trump’s executive...

December 2016

December 28, 2016

The Hollowness of Ethics Without Relationships

I've been thinking about why the carefully crafted statements from all sides analyzing the relationship between...

December 27, 2016

No Freedom Outside the Box

I have suggested that we need wide open public spaces if we are thrive as...

December 10, 2016

Banning the Burqa: the New Exile

The core value of modern democracy is the liberation achieved by participation in public life....

December 01, 2016

Will the Real Islam Please Stand Up?

Yesterday a journalist called me. Billboards have appeared around Dallas with a message about Islam...

August 2016

August 24, 2016

You Can’t Love People and Hate Their Religion

In the Christian polemic against Muslims a common theme emerges. A specific instance comes from...

July 2016

July 06, 2016

It Isn’t About Us. Really.

The New York Times recently ran yet another “why aren’t Westerns outraged” articles after the...

July 01, 2016

Istanbul, Could It Happen Anywhere? No.

A day after the bombings in the airport in Istanbul the BBC Newsclaster breathless bloviated,...

April 2016

April 19, 2016

Intelligence under Attack II

American Christians become so obsessed with the supposed attacks by secularists and humanists on their...

April 19, 2016

Intelligence Under Attack Part I

Inside the US the attack on intelligence by Ted Cruz’ new foreign policy advisors directly...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

A Sign of Hope from the House of Islam

The best way to insure human rights in a modern society is to insure that...

January 2016

January 17, 2016

Forget God, Interreligious Understanding begins with Anthropology

The single most important question in interreligious dialogue today is not theological. Is anthropological. And...

January 14, 2016

God in Bethlehem, God in Mecca?

The question of whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God is for all practical...

January 05, 2016

There is no God but God. Is it really that simple?

Who will be the watchman on the wall to warn when danger approaches the people...

November 2015

November 24, 2015

Is it Hate Speech?

I recently stated in an interview that pastor Robert Jeffress’ statements “Islam is a false...

November 22, 2015

The Darkness in the Heart of Dallas

If Dallas is going to be the city it wants to be then Christian pastors...

November 14, 2015

Job’s Visitors

The blood hadn’t dried and the bodies were still warm when Job’s visitors arrived. A...

November 10, 2015

A Level Playing Field in Missouri?

Offensive racial, ethnic, and religious slurs are means of asserting power and privilege, and thus...

November 04, 2015

Do Unto Others . . . ? Not so much.

Imagine for a minute that you live in a country where Christians are a small...

November 01, 2015

Activists versus Dialogue at the Parliament.

"Would the fundamentalists have shown up for a pluralistic conference that respects multiple viewpoints anyway”...

October 2015

October 17, 2015

How to Stop ISIS Recruiting

At the Council for Foreign Relations lunch there was a vigorous and useful discussion about...

October 17, 2015

Buddhist and Muslim Dialogue for the Earth

The word sacred has two related dimensions. One dimension of something sacred is that it...

October 17, 2015

ISIS and Religious Terror: To Report is not to Support

“By publicizing the views of ISIS as Islamic you are helping their cause.” That was...

October 03, 2015

Mecca to Roseburg, Two Sides of the Same Hopeless Fatalism

Congress needs to get off its knees and back to work. Another shooter, another group...

September 2015

September 27, 2015

Its God’s Will. The Hajj Tragedy and Dialogue

If your religion teaches you that under some circumstances you have no moral responsibility for...

September 18, 2015

Ahmed’s Clock, It Will Happen Again

We need to get out of the weeds of blame in the Ahmed Mohamed case,...

August 2015

August 08, 2015

Fear of Death in Farmersville

Thus far the Islamophobia in Farmersville Texas, spurred on by a Christian pastor named David...

April 2015

April 07, 2015

Muslims on the Rise? Misreading the Pew Report

AHHHHHH! The Muslims are coming the Muslims are coming. I’d barely seen the headlines before...

March 2015

March 10, 2015

The Danger of Islam?

Well, I've been bombarded this week with email about the danger of Islam and Islamism....

February 2015

February 19, 2015

Iconoclast or Jackass

It really depends. One of my favorite characters in fiction, Commissioner Brunetti in Donna Leon’s...

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