The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.

It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with shame and derision and with a healthy dose of mockery, that's how we will very likely look back on this sort of anti-Muslim sentiment as well in the next generation.

Indonesia, women are absolutely 100 percent equal to men

Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible.

Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades who also happens to be Muslim.