08.05.2026
Decorative Dissent and Prophetic Disruption
I occasionally hear about a public personality or scholar who is said to be "progressive" – not in…
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04.05.2026
The World You Inherited
None of us shaped the world we were born into: not us, not our parents, not our grandparents before…
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25.09.2024
Saluting the Final Prophet
Summary: The article argues that salāt on the Prophet is fundamentally a covenantal salute — an…
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25.09.2024
What is “Islam”? Facts Lost in Translation
Summary: The article argues that "Islam" as commonly understood today is not what God intended.…
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12.03.2022
Dear University Students
I'm writing this hoping it lands in the way it's intended. We've been where you are as university…
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22.01.2022
A thought on intelligence and the faithful
Summary: The article is a critique of what popular religious culture has made of God's covenant.…
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30.10.2021
Music: Some facts of the matter
Summary: The article argues that music is generically permitted in God's law, falling into the…
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06.08.2021
The commoners and the leaders – a medieval tale
Summary: The piece diagnoses a structural problem in how the Abrahamic covenant is communicated…
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20.07.2021
Football is polytheism?
Summary: The article dismisses the claim that football — or human-made rules generally —…
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08.12.2019
How to talk to kids about God
Start with yourself Before anything else, we need to take an honest look at what we're bringing to…
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07.12.2019
Three current approaches to religion
Observing how people actually live their religion: in daily life, in public discourse, and in…
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10.08.2019
Convert or Revert?
Summary: The article argues that calling new Muslims "reverts" is both linguistically and…
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