This week’s guest is Shadi Hamid. Shadi Hamid is a columnist at The Washington Post and a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Previously, he was research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary as well as a longtime senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Hamid's newest book is The Case for American Power (Simon & Schuster). He is also the author of several other books, including Th...

This week’s guest is Adam Fronczek. Adam has been the Pastor of Knox Presbyterian Church for eight years. He is passionate about understanding the changing role of religion in our culture; he is also convinced that there is still a place for an active neighborhood church, where generations gather together to figure out life, where people greet you by name and know your story, and where we consider together how we can leave the world a little better than we found it. Adam is married and has fo...

This week's guest is Shaul Magid. Shaul Magid is Professor of Modern Judaism in Residence at Harvard Divinity School and rabbi of the Fire Island Synagogue. His most recent book in The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance. This conversation explores the complex dynamics of religious identity in the context of recent conflicts, particularly focusing on the implications of the ceasefire, the state of American Jewry, and the evolving narratives surrounding Zionism. We reflect on personal j...

This week's guest is Mohammed Marikar. We explore the meaning and implications of AI. Mohammed reflects on AI’s rapid evolution from narrow tools to general-purpose systems, while balancing optimism about efficiency with concern for lost human development and resilience. We probe questions of education, faith, parenting, and morality, discussing how AI intersects with character formation, spiritual life, and societal structures. The conversation ultimately highlights both awe at AI’s capabili...

Zaakir Tameez is a scholar of antitrust and constitutional law. A graduate of Yale Law School and the University of Virginia, he has published award-winning scholarship and coauthored amicus briefs before the Texas and United States Supreme Courts. He is a Fulbright Scholar and Humanity in Action Senior Fellow from Houston, Texas. Zaakir's new book, Charles Sumner: Conscious of a Nation, bridges personal identity and American history. He talks about why a young Muslim guy chose to tell the st...

John Faherty still cannot believe his good fortune in getting a job at The Mercantile Library. His nightstand is filled with books because he is a slow reader, but he doggedly marches on with his pattern of one challenging book followed by one fun book. John thinks few people are actually worth biography and fewer yet of autobiography. John loves historical fiction and confesses a weakness for well-written crime procedurals. He has a particular affection for everything written by Kate Atkinso...

Dr. Abdallah Rothman is a leader in the field of Islamic psychology and has authored numerous books and academic papers on the subject. He is co-founder, along with the late Professor Malik Badri, of the International Association of Islamic Psychology. He’s currently Head of Islamic Psychology at Cambridge Muslim College and the Founder and Clinical Director of Dar al-Shifaa. Dr. Rothman holds an MA and a PhD in psychology and is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Board Certified Registe...

Today, we’re doing something a little different. We’re swapping feeds with In Good Faith, a podcast from BYUradio. In Good Faith seeks to discover how God is working in the world and in our lives. Host Steven Kapp Perry talks with believers from all walks of faith as they share stories and accounts in their own words. The hope is to listen with an open heart, celebrating the power of faith and belief, and what those stories mean to the ones who tell them. In today’s episode Haroon sits ...

This rich and intimate conversation centers on Peter Block, a long-time organizational development thinker, and his reflections on mortality, loneliness, freedom, and purpose. Peter Block is an author and citizen of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the co-founder of Designed Learning, a training company that offers workshops designed to build the skills outlined in his books. Peter is part of the Common Good Alliance of Greater Cincinnati and was a member of his local neighborhood council. His b...

Aatish Taseer is the author, most recently, of A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile, as well as the memoir Stranger to History: A Son’s Journey Through Islamic Lands and the acclaimed novels The Way Things Were, a finalist for the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize, The Temple-Goers, short-listed for the Costa First Novel Award, and Noon; and the memoir and travelog The Twice-Born. He is also the translator of a volume of Saadat Hasan Manto’s short stories from Urdu, Manto: Selected Stories. His books...

This week’s guest, Steve Brusatte, is a paleontologist and professor at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He grew up in Illinois and has traveled the world studying dinosaurs, naming several new species. He is a keen communicator of science and has written several pop science books. His next book will be on the origin and evolutionary history of birds. He is also the paleontology consultant for the Jurassic World film franchise. Things Referenced in This Episode: Steve Brusatte first c...

If you believe in heaven, do you have to believe in hell? A few weeks back, Joey and Haroon sat down with Washington Post columnist, author of multiple books, including The Case for American Power, and fellow podcaster Shadi Hamid for an unexpectedly candid and sincerely searching conversation. If you already know Shadi from his writings, like you can find at Wisdom of Crowds, well… there’s a lot you’ll love. We’ve got Shadi talking about America’s place in the world, about democracy and abou...

Avenue M is hosted by Joey Taylor and Haroon Moghul. We’re two men on a journey of faith and meaning. In each episode we speak with remarkable guests to help us unpack the moments that shape us, the struggles that build us and the questions that intrigue us. Are men in crisis? Joey and Haroon sat down with Richard Reeves, Avenue M’s first guest — and for very good reason: Reeves blew the whistle on what’s now a widely-acknowledged (or, at least, hotly-debated) crisis of masculinity, even as R...