Site of Jesus’ trial found?
Archaeologists make stunning find: Could this be the site of Jesus’s trial?

This is an amazing story on many levels,
It was well presented in the article.
It should be good thing.
Unfortunately, one of those amazing levels can be found is in the "Leave your comment" section at ...
Intro to Sura 68 – The Pen. God’s promises to Abraham, revisited.
Among other things, Sura 68 is a response to Muhammad's sense / fear that his first revelation was from a Jinn (an evil spirit).  It confirms to him that he is not crazy or hallucinating. This second Sura, in order of revelation, is quite long.   Other topics in Sura ...
The problem of caring
The problem of rules
Creation, as told in the Qur’an and Genesis

The first Sura in the Qur'an, by order of revelation, begins with the creation of man. Let's compare that to what's in Genesis, from the Jewish Torah / Christian Bible.
In the translation that I’m using, this verse is called The Embryo. In others, it is called “The Clot” ...
Islam – peace, love and hope. Why?
In the first article in this series - I said I felt led to write about this topic. I also said I had been ignoring the call. 
So - what made me decide to write -
 what was the thing that made the decision for me?
If you’re ...
Islam – peace, love and hope introduction

So - I feel like God’s been pushing me into doing research on Islam.
Not nudging - or guiding - or anything like that.
Because I've been ignoring those.
 No - it's pushing.
The people of three religions claim Abraham as the father of ...
God, The Father – Friend or Foe? A look at Pharaoh.
 "God has not forgotten you."   When you hear that - does it make you happy? Or would you rather that God would just forget you? Interestingly enough - if you really want Him to forget you, He will.  Eventually. But you have to ask yourself, "Is that what ...
Do you care if human pregnancy evolved because of a virus?
 
If someone were to tell you that roughly 100 million years ago, our ancestors were infected by parasitic DNA, which copied and pasted itself throughout their genomes—and that this was linked to the evolution of modern human pregnancy -
what would you think?
how would you react?
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