Politics begins with the way we use words, George Orwell reminded us. At a precarious moment for relations between Muslims and their others it is important to recall that Allah is not the name of the ...

A man has petitioned the Constitutional Court seeking orders to stop Muslims from calling God as Allah or God of Jesus and likening Islam to Christianity. Mr Ivan Samuel Ssebadduka, who calls himself ...

Recognising oneself in the other requires a sustained act of imagination. More than that, it requires sustained habits of imagination — it is a virtue, and thus must be cultivated. The ...

The Hebrew Prophet Malachi (2:5 New International translation) states: “My covenant was with him (each Messenger Abraham, Jacob, Moses and David), a covenant of life and peace, and I gave them (the ...

I wonder if God, also known as Yahweh and Allah, ever cries. Surely, even without physical eyes from which tears flow, the God who has been self-revealed in many cultures must weep anew over Jerusalem ...