Author Archives
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‘French Islam’ demands that its adherents believe the laws of the Republic are more superior than Allah’s. 🇫🇷
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“In the last few years astronomy has come together so that we’re now able to tell a coherent story of how the universe began. This story does not contradict God, but instead enlarges the idea of God.”
Joel Primack is a professor of physics and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is a member of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics.
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What a sick society that makes women think they must be able to kill their children in order to be successful
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Reflections | EP 01 – Sami Yusuf & Peter Sanders
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Beauty and the Beast: an everyday story of life in France
The photo at the top shows Sylvain Helaine, an elementary school teacher in Palaiseau, France who teaches children up to six years old. The photo underneath is of the head of the Sorbonne University Students’ Union in Paris, Maryam Pougetoux…. Read More ›
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The Beauty of God’s Creation: Anatomy of a Honey Bee
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Is this the worst Muslim joke – ever? lol
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Jesus in the Talmud – an exciting new work
I have been studying the Talmud recently and I have just had this book delivered on Jesus in the Talmud. I learn that older scholarship had discounted references to Talmudic stories of Jesus as unreliable distortions but this new work… Read More ›
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Unpopular opinion time
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”I became convinced that atheism implies amorality; and since I am an atheist, I must therefore embrace amorality.” Joel Marks.
Joel Marks is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of New Haven and a Bioethics Center Scholar at Yale University.
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‘Al-Maslahah’ – a little known goal of the Shari’ah.
Maslahah is the idea of the public good or the general welfare as an important goal of God’s law. The article below is from The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World by Jonathan A.C. Brown. It interests me as it… Read More ›
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Salawat from Appalachia
Dr Tim Winter (also known as Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad) just emailed me a link to this new video by an American convert:
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Review of new book by N. T. Wright and Michael F. Bird: ‘The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians’
After much toing and froing (do I really need another introduction to the New Testament in my library?) I decided to purchase N. T. Wright and Michael F. Bird’s “The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History,… Read More ›
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Punishment for homosexual acts according to Torah.
This is very similar to Islam though there must be 4 witnesses to the act (liwat) and the punishment varies.
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Divine Plurals in the Bible and the Qur’ān – a response
Denis Giron has produced an article which has stimulated much debate and reflection amongst Christian and Muslim commentators on Blogging Theology. Rather than add to the ever-extending line of comments, and because I wish to cite some academic sources at… Read More ›
