Increasingly dialogue has shifted from being a path for spiritual seekers to a tool for achieving social cohesion and building civil society.

In the end the best friend of any people or religion is a friend of the truth, and that may include Daniel Pipes: even when he’s wrong.

Evangelical leaders must surely know that their unfavorable attitudes toward a group of people that hold different religious views than their own cannot be justified as Christian.

What is the take-away? Don’t trust the fear mongers. They are in it for the money not the truth. And it’s the truth that sets us free.

. . . this narrow understanding of spirituality is, as we say in Texas, B.S.

Whether in Malaysia, and across the Muslim World, democratic governments and human freedom prosper will depend on end to primal and nomocratic politics, and the rise of pluralist parties to suit pluralist nations.

Only human life is sacred, and the whole of religion and every individual religion in all its parts forfeits its claim to sanctity when it justifies violence against even a single individual child of the Divine.

Christians of course need to ask whether, from a distinctly Christian theological viewpoint, we worship the same God as Muslims.

There is a particular hubris in believing that we of the West are the only people capable of taming our passions and pursuing rational self-interest . . .

Religious freedom is the basis of freedom and democracy, not a byproduct.