If you missed it, there was a huge music festival in Saudi Arabia just a couple of weeks ago in mid-December. Somehow, I missed it and didn’t make the party, but I heard about it. Reports were that 700,000 people attended the four-day MDLBeast Soundstorm music festival held somewhere in the desert of the oil-rich kingdom. That kind of attendance puts it in the league of Coachella, Lollapalooza, or South by Southwest, music festivals held annually in the U.S. With over 200 a

Most Christians are familiar with the concept of tithing. Tithing is first mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 14: 19-20. A priest blessed Abram, and Abram gave him a tenth of everything. Later in Leviticus 27:30-34, Moses introduces tithing as part of the law. The first 10 percent of a harvest or every tenth animal in a herder's flock was designated as "holy" or set apart as belonging to God. The word "tithe" originates from the word "tenth." Thus, technically, you cannot tith

Several weeks ago, when I was discussing the movie DUNE, I mentioned that one of the similarities the movie had to Islam was that Paul Atreides was to be the prophesied leader of the Fremen. Their term, the "Mahdi," is also an eschatological figure in Islam. I thought I would explore who and what the Mahdi is and how Muslims relate to him for this blog. In popular Muslim belief, the Mahdi is a spiritual leader who will rule before the world's end and restore religion and just

That’s how old this blog site is. Our first blog was posted on December 2, 2020, and 60 blogs later we’re still here. We have had many accomplishments during this past year. Probably the biggest accolade is that a publisher has contracted for my book. John Hunt Publishing will publish my book, Muslim Mechanics, probably sometime in August 2022. We are doing the copyedit on the manuscript now and once that’s done, we’ll set a book launch date. Another accomplishment is be