In my previous post I suggested that the God of ancient Israel -- known to Israelites as Yahweh -- lived for centuries in a polytheistic milieu and may well have had a goddess wife named Asherah. This ...

The Islamic concept of Allah rests upon a careful balance between divine transcendence and divine revelation. Allah is knowable, but His essence cannot be comprehensively grasped by the human mind.

Cape Cod, MA. If you google “Allah” and “Christian” and “Malaysia” together today, you will come up with a number of websites, including the BBC and Wall Street Journal, reporting the news today ...

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 ...

In the days of Prophet Abraham, the religions of the Near East and India had hundreds of different gods, with hundreds of names for their different gods, but for those religions that trace their ...

A Dutch Catholic bishop was roundly pilloried for suggesting recently that Christians should call God Allah. By HESHAM HASSABALLAReligion News Service Should Christians call God by the name "Allah"?

Some Muslim women are using feminine pronouns to refer to God. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Hafsa Lodi, who wrote about this movement in The Revealer, about what's driving this. There's a quiet ...

The 176 names of Greek Gods and Goddess, and the 162 individual gods listed in the Egyptian pantheon of gods are actually few. Even the list of 249 Hindu Gods and Goddess names listed in the Hindu ...

Whether "Allah" can refer to the Christian God is not just a burning question in Malaysia; it also drives relations between Islam and Christianity globally. For Muslims, the question of whether ...

Decision ends a 35-year-old government ban on the usage of four Arabic words by Christian publications. KUALA LUMPUR — A Malaysian court ruled Wednesday that non-Muslims can use the word Allah to ...