Life as a Kuffar — Seven Lost Years in Kuwait
Every industry in Kuwait is bloated with salaried, citizen employees who pick and choose their working schedules.
Carla Wilson
· 13 min read
Religion
A collection of 161 posts
Canada's Cult of the Noble Savage Harms Indigenous Peoples
Generations of Indigenous children were forcibly sent to church- and government-run residential schools, which systematically stripped away their culture and language.
Jonathan Kay
· 22 min read
Life Pretending to Be an Egyptian Atheist
A host of experiences answering the same question across Egypt had me braced for a look of pained disappointment.
Anthon Jackson
· 24 min read
Can Religion Impede Economic Development?
Protestantism was a movement of protest against the Catholic Church and the severing of ties with its centralised, hierarchical institutions.
Rumy Hasan
· 6 min read
The Niqab — Life Like a French Woman Who Chose to Remove the Veil
But what happens when a woman who has worn a niqab, sometimes for years, makes the decision to leave it behind?
Agnes De Feo
· 8 min read
The Search for Meaning and the Dangers of Possession
“There is no such thing as not worshipping,” wrote novelist David Foster Wallace. “Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.” G. Jung would have wholeheartedly agreed. He posited that psychic life is motivated by a religious instinct as fundamental as any other, and that this instinct
Lisa Marchiano
· 12 min read
Speaking of Islam — Lubna Ahmed and the Rebel Cause
What is he? A man or a woman? Why should women wear headscarves, that is, the hijab? I ended up asking, Was the Prophet Muhammad real?”
Jeffrey Tayler
· 13 min read
Say Islamism — Stop
‘Islamism’ seems to offer the possibility of distinguishing Islam, the religion of over a billion Muslims, from the actions and ideas of violent movements that act in its name.
Blake Smith
· 7 min read
Islamophobia Hoaxes and the Rush to Judgement
Soon after, politicians at the upper echelons of the Canadian government rushed to express outrage at the incident, even though details remained scant.
Andy Ngo
· 5 min read
The Autistic Buddha — An Interview
The fundamental Buddhist dictum is that “life is suffering” and that the only way of transcending this suffering is to face up to it squarely.
Claire Lehmann
· 6 min read
The Failed Hero's Journey
A failed hero is a young person who finds that chaos insurmountable, and is swallowed by its overwhelming force.
Alexander Blum
· 7 min read
What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About Grief, Mourning, and the Continuity of Life
The mourning traditions of earlier cultures prescribed precise patterns of behavior that facilitated the public expression of grief and provided support for the bereaved.
Daniel Wojcik and Robert Dobler
· 5 min read
Islamic Feminism's Depressing Future
Muslim women are fighting stridently within their communities, but their fight doesn’t tread the same path as secular Western feminism.
Chetna Prakash
· 8 min read
The Case for Moral Doubt
When you find yourself in a moral stalemate, where appeals to rationality and empirical reality have been exhausted.
Scotty Jenkins
· 6 min read
Non-Believers Are Turning to the Bible
There are nonbelievers, though, who turn to the Bible for advice and inspiration and are “cultural Christians” in a deeper sense.
Ben Sixsmith
· 7 min read