“In a real sense all life is interrelated. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of... Read More

BY SARI NUSSEIBEH STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2016 288 PP.; $29.95 AS A WESTERNER for whom the intellectual history of Islam is something of a... Read More

Writing this piece for TheHumanist.com helped to challenge my own ideas and assumptions about the role religion plays in the civic lives of citizens.... Read More

Upon returning to campus following a brief Thanksgiving break, Ohio State University students were subjected to an attack, the fourteenth terrorist or terrorism-related attack... Read More

Some nontheists who leave religion don’t encounter much opposition (or are lucky enough to be encouraged!) and don’t see their atheist identity as something... Read More

The day before Omar Mateen stepped into an Orlando nightclub catering to the LGBTQ community and murdered forty-nine innocent people, the US Postal Service... Read More

My father was a close friend to the uncle of the Orlando mass-murderer, Omar Mateen. My father has nothing but good things to say... Read More

It’s not the kind of headline you see every day: “Chef prepared curry after wiping bottom with his bare hands ‘for cultural reasons.’” If... Read More

On Friday, December 11, schools in Augusta County, Virginia, were closed over safety concerns. Though no credible threats had been made, the sheer volume... Read More

I can't think of a better example of the complex internal struggle within nearly every Muslim community and family than that represented by the... Read More