by Kevin Heifner | Sep 21, 2026 | Opinion
My wife Angie and I recently attended an open discussion at an Episcopal church with five of our Muslim Arkansas neighbors. It was lovely. There was no fear or ugly remarks. Granted, this crowd was pre-selected to be the type of people already open and accepting of...
by Craig Nash | Aug 19, 2026 | Opinion
In April, evangelical speaker and author David Nasser was a guest on the Becoming Something podcast. Nasser arrived in the U.S. with his family as refugees from Iran when he was a child during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. At 18, he converted to Christianity....
by Nick Mumejian | Mar 17, 2026 | Opinion
My teacher, the late Professor Mahmoud Ayoub, used to say ignorance is the original sin of interfaith relations. Not malice, but ignorance. Malice, he believed, was simply ignorance that had found a megaphone. I have thought of him often these past two weeks, as the...
by Sari Bashi | Mar 13, 2026 | Opinion
Israeli leaders want us to believe the US-Israeli-Iranian war is an ethno-religious conflict. It isn’t. In his February 28 speech launching the US-Israeli-Iranian war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to rally Israeli citizens by invoking the story of...
by Ali Khan | Dec 17, 2025 | Opinion
For the past 30 years, the Islamic Academy of Alabama (IAA) has been nestled in a leafy neighborhood near the Birmingham Zoo, about a ten-minute drive from my first home. It serves more than 200 students and has an almost 100 percent university-enrollment rate among...
