Episode 1: What if the Prophet Came Right Now?
Dostoyevsky once asked an interesting question, how would the Catholic Church act if Christ appeared right now?! His answer was not pleasing to many! However, this is a great question for us to ask as a means of reflecting on how we would measure up if the Prophet walked in right now. Are we serious in our faith, or just pretending?
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Understanding the Muslim Mind
If we could take all of Islamic intellectual history, what sort of patterns and principles could we deduce? More importantly, if we found someone who actually knew all this information, what would they look like, think like, talk like, etc.?
What is Usuli Islam?
In The Clock of the Long Now, Stewart Brand argues that religion is one of the most durable institutions of civilization that helps ground us all in timeless values. In his concept of the forces of innovation (rapidly changing) and durability (slow changing) of civilization, religion would definitely be amongst the more slow adapting forces.
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