Lesley Hazleton, a British-born, secular Jewish psychologist turned journalist and author, whose curiosity about faith and religion led her to write...
6 months ago

The last time I saw Lesley Hazelton was around 7 pm on December 5, 2023. I remember the time and day because we and others were in Fremont...
6 months ago

Lesley Hazleton, a psychologist turned author who cast her perceptive gaze on politics, cars, religion and faith, writing about Israeli society.
6 months ago

Seattle-based British-American author Lesley Hazleton, who intensely wrote about the blurring boundaries between politics and religion in her renowned works,...
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In her luminous TEDxRainier talk, Lesley Hazleton, a writer and “accidental theologist,” described herself as “a tourist” in the Koran,...
165 months ago

Lesley Hazleton in her book The First Muslim, that Muhammad's story is that of a mostly reasonable, marginalized man beset by extraordinary circumstances.
142 months ago

In today's febrile cultural and religious climate, what project could be more fraught than writing a biography of Muhammad?
139 months ago

Lesley Hazleton, self-described “accidental theologist,” found herself waking each morning with the same question: What happened to Muhammad the night he...
137 months ago

My religion is a hotly debated series of speculations. I eschew labels because most of them are an uncomfortable, imperfect fit.
103 months ago

Writer Lesley Hazleton calls for a new appreciation of doubt and questioning as the foundation of faith — and an end to fundamentalism of...
132 months ago