In my previous post I suggested that the God of ancient Israel -- known to Israelites as Yahweh -- lived for centuries in a polytheistic milieu and may well have had a goddess wife named Asherah. This ...
The Qur’an also describes Allah as the Light of the heavens and earth, gives a parable of light, and speaks of His guiding ...
I think Carl hit’s all the possibilities, but in the end the greatest opportunity comes when we seek common ground, seek to understand and discover together. I like Carl’s experiential and truth ...
Cape Cod, MA. If you google “Allah” and “Christian” and “Malaysia” together today, you will come up with a number of websites, including the BBC and Wall Street Journal, reporting the news today ...
A statement made by a professor at a leading evangelical college has become a flashpoint in a controversy that really matters. In explaining why she intended to wear a traditional Muslim hijab over ...
An ancient tablet discovered near the Palestinian city of Nablus may contain the earliest known mention of the Biblical name of God, YHVH “Yahweh” in proto-alphabetic Hebrew writing; according to ...
A Dutch Catholic bishop was roundly pilloried for suggesting recently that Christians should call God Allah. By HESHAM HASSABALLAReligion News Service Should Christians call God by the name "Allah"?
Some Muslim women are using feminine pronouns to refer to God. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Hafsa Lodi, who wrote about this movement in The Revealer, about what's driving this. There's a quiet ...
That Arabic thingy up there says “As Salaamu Alaikum”, which means “Peace be upon you”. Don’t want anyone to be scared after that really weird situation in Virginia. Okay, the first and biggest ...
Love plays an important role in all three of the world’s major monotheistic religions. They draw this idea from their sacred scriptures. Christians maintain that the New Testament builds upon the ...