It was Saturday, October 14 last year. The BBC Radio was about to play a pre-recorded interview with a spokesman for Hamas and needed to explain to listeners something in advance…

I live about 40 minutes from the Anglican Cathedral of the Redeemer here in Madrid, and I often walk rather than take the metro. Indeed, I find myself walking all over the place in this city.

I was recently interviewed for Escritorio Anglicano (The Anglican Desk), which is a Spanish blog for all things Anglican. The interview touched on various things—how I became Anglican, religion in Spain, and so on.

Over the years I’ve done a great deal of teaching on Islam and Christianity.… I note that there is one question that people almost always ask: what exactly is the shari’a? Where does it come from?