Newcomers to the Quran might be surprised to find that the Prophet Muhammad is only mentioned a handful of times in the Muslim holy book. The prophet whose name is mentioned most? That would be Moses ...

He’s familiar yet novel, this Muslim Jesus. We almost recognize the cadence. “Blessed is he who sees with his heart but whose heart is not in what he sees.” Still, it’s off somehow, and where are ...

In the crash course in Islam offered by the media over the last six months, many Christians will have heard it said that Muslims regard Jesus as a great prophet—not divine, and superseded by Muhammad, ...

In a strange variation on Matthew’s Gospel that Christians probably haven’t heard, Jesus declares to his followers: “Truly I say to you, God will not leave one stone of this mosque upon another but ...

As for the name “Palestine,” it was not used in any widespread way to describe the land of Israel until 135 AD – in other ...

Every couple of years I have the oppor­tunity to teach a "special topics" course at Piedmont College—a onetime offering that may appeal to a broader audience than the regular religion courses listed ...

When people think about Christmas, the first thing that comes to mind probably isn't the Quran, the central religious text of Islam. Many people assume that the world's major monotheistic religions ...

There are many Jesuses, despite the fact that there was only one. Permutations began appearing as early as the first century and have not abated, making efforts to uncover the historical Jesus, the ...

A documentary, broadcast on British television ITV on Sunday, seeks to portray Jesus as Muslims view him. The one-hour program, called The Muslim Jesus, explains how Muslims consider Jesus to be a ...

As the country sits transfixed with one of the strangest, divisive and most unpredictable presidencies in the history of the United States, lost in the madness has been the increase in Islamophobia ...