There is nothing wrong with being a fundamentalist, nothing problematic about being deeply committed to your beliefs; rather, the questions should be ‘What are those beliefs?’ and ‘How do they cause you to behave, especially towards others?’

According to the latest research from the well-respected Pew Research Center, by 2060 Christianity will have grown to 32% of the world’s population, Islam to 31%,2 and the number of people identifying as atheists or agnostics will have declined to 12.5%.

The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed, and apathy, and to deal with these we need a cultural and spiritual transformation.

The key idea for Islam is guidance. The key idea for Christianity is forgiveness.

With Allah and the Qur’an, all that is on offer is guidance; for Yahweh and the Bible, what is on offer is rescue

your place and time of birth no doubt affect what you believe, but they cannot tell us whether those beliefs are true (or false).

Our twenty-first-century penchant for criticizing the immorality of our ancestors really does assume that we can know, historically and morally, what is True).

true compassion: you did something, it cost you, and you suffered alongside.

Christianity has never been wedded to one specific culture in the same way as a religion like Islam or Buddhism.