- “For The Greater Good”
- Guilt By Drone
- Against The Odds
- Guns, Cash, and Votes
- U.S. Held Hostage
- Tragedy Or Terrorism? Really?
- At The Franz Kafka Intl Airport…
- My Interview With Homeland Security
- The Battle of the Muhammad Movies
- Pope Goes The Weasel
- What Happens When We Eat Together
- New Q & A on Muhammad
- Elephant + Waves = Joy
- Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner
- Armed To The Eyeballs
- Caption This Photo!
- Palestine and Israel at the Oscars
- Publication Omens
- Morsi’s Anti-Semitism
- The Act of Reading
- Q and A on ‘The First Muslim’
- Zero Bland Thirty
- To Live And Die In America
- When Will We Ever Learn…
- Gun Sickness
- The Rhythm of Connection
- Hannukah Music?
- TEDx Talk: Muhammad, You, and Me
- Welcome, Palestine!
- Mary: No Illusions
- No Gaza Ceasefire
- Onstage At TEDx Rainier
- Great Early Review of ‘The First Muslim’
- A Moved And Moving Obama
- A Huge Sense of Relief
- Many Happy Returns
- In Love With The Bishop
- A Tale of Two Countries
- Breaking Through On Iran?
- Romney’s White Christmas
- Introducing… TheFirstMuslim.com
- Yom Kippur 2012
- ‘Silent Majority’ Of Muslims? Not Any More
- The Real Muslim Rage
- When Freedom Of Speech Is Unknown
- The Right Video To Go Viral
- Could That Video Be Self-Defeating?
- Blood Brothers
- One Term More: The Song
- I’m Inaugural!
- ‘Legitimate Rape’ – The Video
- An Early Nod for ‘The First Muslim’
- A Bitter End
- Neanderthals in D.C.
- Last Week, In Abu Dhabi
- NBC’s Flag-Waving For Idiots
- Libraries Under Threat
- All That Remains
- Just For The Joy Of It
- Poor Iran
- Willow Wilson’s Genie Genius
- Knowledgeable Ignorance
- Omar Khayyam Weighs In
- High-Wire Hype
- Return of the Accidental Theologist
- Best Valentine of the Year
- “Do You See Religion on my Chest?”
- Hazleton on Hitchens
- The Holy Hand Grenade
- Two Quotes for the New Year
- Hermit Sighting
- Because It’s Beautiful
- Accidental Genius
- What Work Is
- Caution: Writer at Work
- What’s Right About the DSK Rape Case
- Bravo, NY!
- “Fuck-You” Feminism
- Revolution, Saudi Style
- The Dalai Lama in the Land of Oz
- Soccer v. Headscarf: 0-1
- Is This How Pogroms Begin?
- Foreskin Fixation
- The Virginity Test
- Anti-Sleaze
- Sleaze
- The Ministry of Art
- Portrait of a Saudi Criminal
- Left Behind
- Could You Pass the Slut Test?
- Asking For It?
- Countdown to Rapture
- Fearing Nothing But Intimacy
- Rape = Torture
- Mr President, Don’t!
- Can We Please Go Home Now?
- Awaiting Comment from the Saudis and the Taliban
- Sluts and Veils
- The Passover-Ramadan Connection
- Alice Walker on What Humanity Means
- Scroll to the Editor
- Nuclear Denial
- Entitle Your Uterus!
- Soul Brothers: The Crackpot Pastor and the Taliban
- Hallelujah
- Naked Infinity
- Hear No Evil…
- Why Libya?
- A Comment on Comments
- Letter from Japan
- Super-Moon!
- That Colossal Wreck
- Caution: Democracy at Play
- The 50-Minute Video
- Anti-Semitism = Islamophobia
- We Shall Overcome
- A Baby Video?
- Warp Speed
- Believing in Peace
- The Antidote to 9/11?
- Thank You, Egypt!
- “Leave, Leave, Leave”
- Courage Is Infectious
- And Now, The Thugs
- Mubarak, Your Flight is Boarding
- “I Am Proud To Be Egyptian Today”
- ‘Domestic Crusaders’
- An Agnostic Manifesto: Part One
- A Celestial Wobble
- Pretty Palin
- The 100th Post: a Non-Mission Statement
- The Language of Guns
- Gaza Youth Manifesto: ‘Fuck Them All!’
- Perfect Photo
- The ‘Obvious’
- The Burqa Strikes Again
- Silent Night
- Hellfire at Christmas?
- Facing Down Extremism
- Weep, and Smile
- The Truth Problem
- Immigration Rocks!
- My TEDx Talk on the Quran: the Video
- High Desert High
- The Books She Carried
- Madeleine Albright: Going Straight with Islam
- God Hates Figs
- Hollywood Smarm
- Other People’s Lives
- Injustice Cannot Defeat Injustice
- Art v. Ugliness: 1-0
- My TEDx Talk on the Quran (Trailer)
- Poisoned Fruit
- Serious Wind Power, Finally
- Faith, Falsehood, and Fiction
- Up Against the Wailing Wall
- The Real Muslim-Christian Fault Line
- Fear of the Knife
- Life Under Occupation
- Delicious Ignorance
- It’s Okay, You Can Laugh
- Islam and Free Speech
- After the Game
- Channeling Khadija
- The Photo That Didn’t Make Headlines
- Burning Jesus
- Mensch-iness
- What Obama Really Meant
- Iraq in Fragments
- Laughing at the Homo-Bigots
- Book Award Finalist!
- Muslims Respond With Grace
- Mosque Hysterics
- The Plastic Bag Odyssey
- Framing the Mosque
- Quran Quotes for Bigots – I
- Challenging the Bigots
- Seeing the Snow Leopard
- Thank God for Rootless Cosmopolitanism
- Amazing Hip-Hop Grace
- Palin in a Taiwan Nutshell
- The ADL’s Neo-Bigotry
- Bloodsuckers for Christ
- Bravo, WikiLeaks
- The Hikers’ Nightmare
- Vatican Logic
- That Old-Time Atheist Religion
- Muslims on the Bus
- A “Bad Jew” Speaks Out
- Why Ban Just the Burqa?
- Scary Photo
- Techno-Dementia
- Cuddly Tech
- Accidental Theologist v. Gunship Helicopters: 1-0
- The Rockets’ Red Glare
- My Father’s Daughter
- To the Slaughter
- Samurai Tennis
- Wrongology
- What’s Wrong About Dying?
- Messiah Tech
- Wagering on Peace
- Happiness? Now?
- Tech and Awe
- Can Wisdom Prevail?
- Speechless in Gaza
- Heading for Gaza
- Obscenity in Black and Blue
- The Church Goes to Battle — Against Nuns
- Stunning “Icons”
- Give It Up for Imperfection!
- Oil Worship
- Muslim Miss USA — Congratulations?
- Too Many Jews?
- On the Beach
- The Insult of Oil
- Holy Bull
- Kaddish for my Mother
- Let’s Ban Sunglasses!
- Veiled Hatred
- Just How Kosher Does a Muslim Intellectual Have To Be?
- Most successful logo ever? The cross.
- Theology for the People!
- Is Islam Really Against Satire?
- Lighting a Candle?
- Impressive: Sinead O’Connor Takes on the Pope
- Why Go Full Tilt at the Full Veil?
- Who’s Innocent?
- Is Christopher Hitchens Running for Pope?
- How to Be an Accidental Theologist





Wonderful blog. I have nothing deep or witty to leave for you, I simply enjoyed very much getting to know you through the writings. High Desert High brought tears to my eyes. Thank you so much!
Hi,
My cuzin posted a facebook link on your Tedx talk, I googled your website, clicked the link on your book ‘after the prophet’ which arrived 2 weeks later and…I could not put it down. Fantastic reading especially for ‘agnostic’ muslims like myself. Lesley, you should make a film as it has all the ingredients of a blockbuster movie. Hide it by making it contemporary as in patriarch Sicily or Roman Republic less we annoy some cleric somewhere. (fatwa free movie)
Big thanks for making my weekend and enlightening me.