Commentary

College-age Americans resist fixed definitions for what it means to be religious.

Being a woman, and a mother myself, the  killing a child — even in the beginning stage of fetus — is an unbearable and horrific thought. But at the same time, if a woman chooses to go to this extreme, then surely, she has solid reasons behind it.

That’s the slogan on my favorite t-shirt. Why? Because, in essence, it clearly states my ideas about human having freewill. Yes, we have it, but with some interesting self-imposed limitations.

Life is at the end of the road in the smallest house that sits still, quiet, and alone.

As a scholar of Islamic ethics, I’m often asked, “What does Islam say about abortion?” – a question that has become even more salient since the U.S. Supreme Court reversed 50 years of constitutional protection for the right to get an abortion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling on June 24, 2022.

If reincarnation were a general feature of life, stories of it would be occurring cross-culturally.