To read Abd-Allah’s full essay “One God, Many Names,” go to the Nawawi Foundation’s Web site, www.nawawi.org; click on “Learning” and then on “Learn More.” An Islamic scholar spoke to a crowd of about ...

Maury County, Tennessee is in the heart of the Bible Belt. So it’s understandable why the local church ladies got all shook up when they discovered that school children had been forced to declare, ...

President Donald Trump shocked observers across the political spectrum with an explicit and hateful Easter message aimed at ...

In Malaysia last month, there was vicious rioting after high court judge Lau Bee Lan issued a ruling on the proper naming of God. A complaint had been lodged by Muslim groups that local Christians ...

Why don’t monotheistic religions have just one name for God? Polytheistic religions have many names for their gods because they have many gods; and each god has one or more names. But if you worship ...

In Hinduism and Buddhism there are hundreds of Named male Gods and several dozen major, widely known, Named Goddesses. In Judaism there is only one male God; but there are seven female Named prophets.

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 ...

Jack Miles is a man of many accomplishments; he’s probably best known as “God’s biographer.” Miles, a former Jesuit priest, is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship, better ...