Islam
Voices of American Muslims
Both Amir Hussain and Eboo Patel model interfaith bridge-building in their writing.
Who is Jesus for Muslims?
“According to Islam, Jesus always speaks the truth. The question is how we understand it.”
Amy Frykholm interviews Zeki Saritoprak
My life as an ambivalent American Muslim
How can I help reform Islam? I can’t even make it to prayers.
A Deuteronomist redactor meets a recorder of Islamic texts
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
by Debbie Blue
When Muslims talk to Zionists
“It’s one thing to say you support a two-state solution. It’s another thing to go to Israel and study Judaism.”
David Heim interviews Abdullah Antepli
The war we aren't winning
The United States has been engaged for decades in a seemingly endless series of wars and military operations.
Celebrating centrist Muslims
There’s some good news amid the gloom of global terrorism—namely, the little-known world of wasatiyya, or centrist, Islam.
Missionaries among Muslims
To lionize the missionary’s courage, Muslims were cast as implacable adversaries and served as the quintessential foil.
Unsettled in the beginning
I love Genesis for some of the same reasons the church fathers were wary of it.
by Debbie Blue
Glimpses of Boko Haram
The history and struggles of the Nigerian movement known as Boko Haram are more complicated than they first appear.
The God in Franklin Graham's words
Franklin Graham wrote the other day that “Islam denies that God has a son.” Note the unqualified, singular, capitalized God in that statement.
The same God?
Can the word God be separated from the particular tradition by which God is known? Christians have long answered this question both ways.
Theological work to be done, but by whom?
Writing at a safe remove from the fever swamps and the hate crimes—without, in fact, even mentioning them—Ross Douthat argues that pious Muslims must inevitably face conflict between the “lure of conquest, the pull of violent jihad” and the ambiguous, unsettled place of traditional religion in a secularizing culture.
Mary among the Egyptians
It’s almost certain that historic Christian devotion to the Virgin Mary began in Egypt. The nation’s Muslims often plead for her help, too.
One Abraham or three? The conversation between three faiths
Can "Abrahamic" replace "Judeo-Christian"? And without sacrificing the integrity of three different traditions?
Living by the Qur’an: Islam scholar Jonathan Brown
"The Qur'an is like a stream of divine consciousness. The literal meaning of the Qur'an is never the literal meaning of the Qur'an."
interview by Amy Frykholm
Saved by Islam?
Submission is billed as a cautionary tale about Islam's threat to Europe. In fact it's more of an introspective tract on the West's ambivalence about survival.
by S. Mark Heim
"Next time you see me, I won't be wearing this shirt."
It starts off as a standard writeup of a protest and counter-protest of a mosque’s Friday prayers. An accompanying video portrays the two sides as polarized not just in rhetoric but in various cultural markers, starting with the fact that one side is packing the kind of firepower that would have shocked people not so long ago (and would still if the heat-packers weren’t so white).
You know, just a slice of 21st-century American life.