Islamic Nonviolence

Adnane Mokrani’s “Towards an Islamic Theology of Nonviolence” is perhaps the only engagement with René Girard’s anthropology written from within an Islamic framework. In the aftermath of 9/11, Girard often suggested that militant Islam represented a possible return of sacrificial religion into history. Mokrani’s work can be read, at least in part, as a response […]

Revisiting Solzhenitsyn in 2026: Why Are We Attracted to Christianity?

Why is there an increasing trend among the youth toward Christianity? I cannot claim a definitive answer, not least because I am no longer young. At best, I can draw from my own experience and cautiously speculate. My own journey began with a simple but overwhelming realization: that God loves human beings far more deeply […]