Qur’an History Upheaval

My latest Religion Watch column is now available at this link. I worked really hard on the article to make it accurate.  It was fun since I got to talk to a lot of scholars. Happy reading. PS. If you want to study Islam more thoroughly, check

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Resources on Trump battles

I have followed controverises about Donald Trump since he announced his intent to run for the White House in 2015.  Along the way I wrote different Religion Watch columns about Trump and just released my book God’s Man in the White House: Donald Trump in Modern Christian

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The Virus and World Religions

For decades I have written the Religion Watch column for Faith Today magazine, published by the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC). My latest column for the May-June issue dealt with the impact of the virus on religion. Here is a link to the column: https://www.faithtoday.ca/Magazines/2020-May-Jun/The-virus-and-world-religions. For the

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The Galli Bombshell

On Dec. 19 Mark Galli, then editor in chief at Christianity Today magazine, unleashed a bombshell on an unsuspecting world. He called for President Trump’s removal from office. “None of the president’s positives can balance the moral and political danger we face under a leader of such grossly immoral character,” Galli

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Celebrity Conversion

Religion Watch column Faith Today January-February 2020 James A. Beverley   Lyrics from Kanye West’s album “Jesus is King” (released October 25, 2019) “Praise the Lord, I know I won’t forget Jesus. You won’t ever be the same when you call out Jesus’ name.” “Satan get behind

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Authoritarian Religion in Quebec

“This is the first time I was ever in a city where you couldn’t throw a brick without breaking a church window.” Mark Twain’s famous quip, made in Montreal in 1881, captured the enormous presence of Roman Catholicism in Quebec. I doubt if the American author would

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