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• Blogging Theology Poll: ‘Unpopular opinion: I hate the clock tower’ – Do you agree?

  By Paul Williams on October 8, 2020 • ( 12 )

  

  
  

• ‘French Islam’ demands that its adherents believe the laws of the Republic are more superior than Allah’s. 🇫🇷

  By Paul Williams on October 7, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  
  

• “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.”

  By Paul Williams on October 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  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.

• What a sick society that makes women think they must be able to kill their children in order to be successful

  By Paul Williams on October 6, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  
  

• Reflections | EP 01 – Sami Yusuf & Peter Sanders

  By Paul Williams on October 6, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  
  

• Beauty and the Beast: an everyday story of life in France

  By Paul Williams on October 6, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  
  

  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 ›

• The Beauty of God’s Creation: Anatomy of a Honey Bee

  By Paul Williams on October 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  
  

• Is this the worst Muslim joke – ever? lol

  By Paul Williams on October 5, 2020 • ( 4 )

  
  

• Jesus in the Talmud – an exciting new work

  By Paul Williams on October 5, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  
  

  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 ›

• Unpopular opinion time

  By Paul Williams on October 5, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

• ”I became convinced that atheism implies amorality; and since I am an atheist, I must therefore embrace amorality.” Joel Marks.

  By Paul Williams on October 5, 2020 • ( 5 )

  

  
  

  Joel Marks is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of New Haven and a Bioethics Center Scholar at Yale University.

• ‘Al-Maslahah’ – a little known goal of the Shari’ah.

  By Paul Williams on October 4, 2020 • ( 3 )

  
  

  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 ›

• Salawat from Appalachia

  By Paul Williams on October 3, 2020 • ( 2 )

  
  

  Dr Tim Winter (also known as Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad) just emailed me a link to this new video by an American convert:

• 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’

  By Paul Williams on October 3, 2020 • ( 7 )

  

  
  

  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 ›

• Punishment for homosexual acts according to Torah.

  By Paul Williams on October 2, 2020 • ( 3 )

  
  

  This is very similar to Islam though there must be 4 witnesses to the act (liwat) and the punishment varies.