Love plays an important role in all three of the world’s major monotheistic religions. They draw this idea from their sacred scriptures. Christians maintain that the New Testament builds upon the ...

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 ...

Allah’s 99 names describe the many personality aspects of the One God; and Torah’s 70 aspects describe the varied relationships between the One God and the varied multitude of religious believers.

Last November the Malaysian government refused to release 10,000 Bibles it had seized because they contained the word Allah to refer to God. The Herald, a publication of the Roman Catholic Church in ...

Three reasons why Allah equals God historically, theologically and linguistically. The idea that Muslims and Christians worship different Gods is not only false, it’s dangerous. Also, the Friday ...

The Hebrew Prophet Malachi (2:5 New International translation) states: “My covenant was with him (Messengers Abraham, Jacob, Moses and David), a covenant of life and peace, and I gave them (the ...

THE FIRST tenet of Islam is La ilaha ill’ allah—“There is no deity but God.” Allah is simply the word for God in Arabic and several other languages, including Malay. But Malaysia’s home ministry ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Many Islamic scholars saw the 100th name of Allah as a future name like “ana” (I am). The learned scholar and mystic Mansur Al-Hallaj was put to death in the 9th century for revealing this secret name ...

I’m not a huge optimist when it comes to most of the world’s problems. Try as I may, optimism isn’t my default state. Somehow though, I am an incurable optimist when it comes to one thing – the ...

There's a quiet revolution happening among some Islamic scholars and feminists. They're using female or gender-neutral pronouns to refer to the divine, Allah. SOFIA REHMAN: I don't need to think of ...