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God’s timing is perfect. Have you ever wondered why Jesus came just when he did? In the first century the Greek language, the Roman Empire and the Jewish diaspora worked together to ensure that the the Gospel spread quickly throughout the known world: a common tongue, superb transport and a...
Besides the teaching of apologetics at Turning Point and the study at SOAS (on current trends of Islam), I have been trying to make it to Speakers’ Corner every Sunday to ‘field test’ the new debate material concerning the historical/critical analysis of the Qur'an. Over the last few months I...
There has been a Muslim presence in Britain since the early nineteenth century, but the Muslim community only began to increase significantly in the 1950s and 1960s, with the arrival of large numbers of workers from the Indian sub-continent. About half of the current 2 million Muslim population was born...
Kalim Siddiqui, the leader of Britain’s self-styled Muslim Parliament, died of a heart attack on 18 April 1996. Claiming to represent British Muslims, he was seen by most moderate Muslims as a dangerous fanatic. At the first meeting of the Muslim Parliament in January 1992, Siddiqui declared that ‘Muslims will...
For many of us, the Muslim World is largely known only through media coverage of, for example, the Israeli-Pakistan conflicts, or the Gulf War. The call to the mosque, oil wealth or terrorism come to mind when we think of Islam. However, myths about Christian mission to the 1.1 billion...
I was recently asked to speak at a London medical school on the topic ‘Christianity and Islam - a Historical Perspective.’ After I had finished a Muslim Student asked a question which then led on to three hours of dialogue between us: on everything from the Bodmer papyrus to the...
Many Christians are suspicious of intellectual debate with Muslims, saying it leads only to argument, but this is simply not the case. Consider, for example, the following note from a Muslim enquirer which recently appeared on the internet web-site. 'My Dear Brother in Islam, I will admit that I was...
Over 6,000 people world-wide (many from Muslim countries) have ‘pulled down’ the transcript of the ‘Sources of Islam’ debate at Cambridge last Autumn between Jay Smith and Dr Jamal Bedawi. Jay’s most recent debate (with Abdul Green on 29 May on ‘Is the Qur'an the Word of God?’) is also...
