As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but rather as a majestic….

We need to do whatever we can, legally and within our power, to remove Donald Trump from office as fast as possible before something serious happens ….

The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the ….

In times of economic distress, it's only natural for people - and Americans have done this for many years - to look for a scapegoat. Depending on whe….

Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they'd like to admi….

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect..

The New Testament is not a historical document..

One-fifth of Americans, 20% believe that Barak Obama is, himself, a Muslim and in fact - amongst Republicans that number is almost 40%. Polls show in….

The first week or day that Obama was in office, he made it clear that peace in the Middle East would be a high priority for him. And his choice of a ….

Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it, but expect….

Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible..

For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come ….

The Israelis have not been willing to take the crucial step, and that is to withdraw from the Palestinian territory, the West Bank. And this is a cru….

Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control..

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that….

A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat..

Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion..

It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible..

Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As one Sufi master has argued, ….

The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to ma….

I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with shame and derision and with ….