Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with believing your beliefs are true; the problem is when you treat those who disagree with you harshly and arrogantly. Cockiness is a problem; confidence and certainty are not.

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).

The assumption that ‘all religions are essentially the same’ is usually held by people who haven’t studied any of them properly.

in most areas of life, confidence and certainty are what most of us want, most of the time.

You simply cannot avoid the elephant of exclusivity, no matter how carefully you try to spray it with camouflage paint and pretend it isn’t there.

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

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

The qur’anic Jesus is a bizarre oddity, borrowed from elsewhere and then forced into the Qur’an, rather like a five-year-old child hammering on the wrong jigsaw piece in the hope it will fit if thumped hard enough.

Self-help or salvation? That question gets to the heart of whether or not we are speaking of the same god when we talk about Allah and Yahweh.