Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Imagine you’re a young Christian woman from the United States. A veiled Pakistani woman tells you that she has more freedom than you. How would you react?
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It can be unsettling for Muslims like myself, who have grown up reading the Quranic account of human creation in a particular way, to consider evolution a valid explanation for the creation of life.
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Imagine, for a moment, that you are a young Singaporean Muslim leader. How will you guide your community through questions of diversity and modernity?
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It is a harsh and bitter irony that the holiest sites of the Abrahamic faiths are either abodes of exclusivism or of strife and conflict.
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Jerusalem features in diverging Palestinian discourses of territorial inclusivity versus religiously-based exclusion in the context of Israel’s military, settler, and structural violence.
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In the current religio-political life in Indonesia, the naming of God as Merciful becomes a public discourse geared toward a theology of inclusivity.
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Without careful nurturing and dedicated attention to the past as well as the present, tradition becomes an instrument of power, and a source of learned ignorance.
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The history of the United States is a multicultural, multiethnic, multireligious one. But that history is often not told.
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Men’s clothing is the marker of the nation’s power and modernity; women’s clothing is the marker of its morality, honor, and ethnic identity.
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While religion, with its deep historical roots and foundational texts, may appear more infallible than science, can it too shift with new moral consensuses?
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