Masks as Veils
As mask mandates are rescinded, some experts say that wearing masks should continue even after COVID goes away so as to prevent other diseases. Other people say they like wearing masks as a way to hide...
View ArticleAn Islamic Take on LGBTQ Identity
A Muslim woman explains why a Muslim's identity can only be based on religion, not on particular desires. And why "queer Muslims do not exist." Not that some Muslims don't struggle with same-sex...
View ArticleSalvation by Dying in Battle
In support of Vladimir Putin's order to mobilize Russians for the war in Ukraine, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, proclaimed that “sacrifice in the course of carrying out...
View ArticleMuslims vs. Their Woke Allies
The Left considers Muslims to be an oppressed group and so supports them in the name of intersectionality. But Muslims seem to be waking up--as opposed to being "woke"--to the contradictions between...
View ArticlePolitical Conversions
Religious conversion generally has to do with spiritual transformation, personal commitment, theological conviction, and the like. But we are now seeing conversions to make a political statement. And...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence, the Golem, & the Genie
The development of artificial intelligence is filling many people with alarm, raising a host of questions. And yet this new technology has already been the subject of reflection from ancient religions....
View ArticleMonday Miscellany, 6/26/23
Civil war breaks out in Russia, Muslims step up in the culture wars, and Christianity surges in Iran.
View ArticleMonday Miscellany, 10/23/23
DeSantis evacuates Americans, Sweden is overrun with gang violence, and President Biden sells off half of the nation's oil reserves.
View ArticleFrom Islam, to New Atheism, to Christianity
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the Somali-Dutch activist and writer who, a cradle Muslim, has become one of the major critics of radical Islam. With multiple fatwas calling for her death, Ayaan became an atheist....
View ArticleInstrumentalizing the Gospel
In the course of writing about Ayaan Hirsi Ali's conversion to Christianity, Carl Trueman raises an important point about "instrumentalizing the gospel"; that is, using Christianity as the means to an...
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