Distraction and Its Discontents

Stephen A. Gregg

When we lose focus, we often regret our lack of self-mastery. But is the back and forth of the mind’s losing hold and then regaining it the essence of attention in this life?

Resisting the Architecture of Apathy

Marwa Al-Sabouni

The way societies driven by profit and production design and build lived environments breeds an apathy that, unchecked, can only lead to the dissolution of human communities as we’ve known them.

Malice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass into a Strange New World

Carl R. Trueman, Hamza Yusuf

A Renovatio public conversation about the modern self examines both the philosophical origins and the impact of the subversive sexual revolution we are witnessing today.

The Untold Stories of Enslaved African Muslim Women in the Americas

Sylviane A. Diouf

Among the enslaved Africans in the Americas, Muslim men have garnered significant attention. But historical records can provide a glimpse into the lives of the forgotten ones: enslaved Muslim women.

Cultural Devolution

Hamza Yusuf

How the new victimhood culture rejects human dignity and divinity

How the Law of Love Could Govern Our Hatreds

Diana Fritz Cates

The love command implies a duty to believe in the possibility of goodness for others—even when we see no evidence of the good in a person’s character or actions.

A Muslim Declaration of Human Rights?

Zaid Shakir

Muslims have long endeavored to produce a modern human rights declaration holistically rooted in their tradition. How might they finally succeed?

Do What Thou Wilt?

A discussion between two scholars—Mohammad Fadel and Hasan Spiker—on an understanding of freedom that permits us to direct our selves and our societies toward the common good.

Mohammad Fadel, Hasan Spiker, Paul Williams

The Morality in the Mysteries of Dorothy Sayers

Sarah Barnette

When we read Dorothy Sayer’s detective fiction, we engage in a pastime that goes beyond entertainment or escape—we detect not just the crime, but our own humanity.

Images of the Unimaginable God

Ankur Barua

While the Abrahamic thinkers have always grappled with the question of idolatry, what’s lesser known is that Hindu traditions also abound with critics of attempts to re-present the divine through human forms.