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November 2012

November 12, 2012

No compulsion in religion . . . .

The Qur'an, in Chapter 2, verse 256, states "There is no compulsion in religion" or...

September 2012

September 25, 2012

Religion is the Problem

"I also want to say that Islam, beyond the exaggerations, points the finger at something...

August 2012

August 13, 2012

The Pastor is Out (of it)

So lets review the recent news. A man with neo-Nazi sympathies goes to a Sikh...

July 2012

July 13, 2012

Divine Mandate, Dialogue Disaster?

How do we enter into respectful dialogue with another religious viewpoint when that religious viewpoint...

July 01, 2012

The Secular Attack on Religion

This past week two citizens of the UK took their claims to the European Court...

June 2012

June 09, 2012

Blaspheme Laws: The Enemy of Dialogue

On June 6th we learned that the Turkish government has charged one of its citizens...

June 04, 2012

Abraham’s Children?

Last Wednesday I attended an interfaith dialogue event of exceptional quality. A rabbi, a pastor,...

June 02, 2012

Religious Freedom and the Arab Spring

The June 1 New York Times offers this headline: "Russian Church Is a Strong Voice...

May 2012

May 08, 2012

The End of Civil Religion in America

Yes, I know. Being civil about religion in America is already long dead. Stridency is...

May 07, 2012

The Christian Basis for a Religiously Plural Democracy

In the last blog I asked how those who exercise their political responsibilities out of...

April 2012

April 29, 2012

Islam in Egypt and Freedom of Conscience

Today's New York Times (April 29, 2012) reports that Egypt's most conservative Islamic groups have...

December 2011

December 18, 2011

The Arab Spring and the Islamists

To maintain its popular support the MB needs a constitution that will give it a...

November 2011

November 10, 2011

Of License Plates and the Slaughter of Cows

What happens when one religion's ritual actions and public claims flatly assert that another religion's...

October 2011

October 25, 2011

Shari’a in North Africa – Some Clarity Please

Neither ideology nor religion determine how a society works, that belongs to the people of...

September 2011

September 17, 2011

Muslims in America

These days if you feel like a stranger in a strange land, then you have...

August 2011

August 21, 2011

Of Prayer and Presidency and Dialogue

Help all Texans, and Americans, get to know their neighbors of different religions well enough...

August 12, 2011

9/11 and American Religion – 10 Years on.

Increasingly dialogue has shifted from being a path for spiritual seekers to a tool for...

June 2011

June 25, 2011

Daniel Pipes an Islamophobe? Really? Really?

In the end the best friend of any people or religion is a friend of...

June 25, 2011

Evangelicals need Dialogue

Evangelical leaders must surely know that their unfavorable attitudes toward a group of people that...

June 22, 2011

How Many Muslims Does it Take?

What is the take-away? Don’t trust the fear mongers. They are in it for the...

May 2011

May 21, 2011

Spirituality: a Hindrance to Dialogue?

. . . this narrow understanding of spirituality is, as we say in Texas, B.S.

April 2011

April 20, 2011

Primal, Nomocratic, or Pluralist politics

Whether in Malaysia, and across the Muslim World, democratic governments and human freedom prosper will...

April 14, 2011

Islam, Excuses, and the Sacred

Only human life is sacred, and the whole of religion and every individual religion in...

March 2011

March 07, 2011

Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?

Christians of course need to ask whether, from a distinctly Christian theological viewpoint, we worship...

February 2011

February 21, 2011

Religion and Rationality in the Muslim World

There is a particular hubris in believing that we of the West are the only...

February 06, 2011

No Freedom without Religious Freedom in Egypt

Religious freedom is the basis of freedom and democracy, not a byproduct.

January 2011

January 02, 2011

A New Year of Violence Against Christians

One is tempted to balance this report with attacks in the Christian West on mosques...

January 02, 2011

Islamic Law in America?

. . . both Muslims and non-Muslims are not fully aware of the historical limits...

December 2010

December 13, 2010

Apostasy and Blaspheme

But for Muslims some words and the images they create in the human soul are...

November 2010

November 04, 2010

Why Don’t Muslims . . . . .

The thing I hear most often when speaking about Islam and Muslims is that Muslims...

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