How Islam Is Bringing Me Clarity This Christmas

Few things can sharpen understanding of your own faith like studying that of another. I'm a follower of Jesus Christ, a Latter-day Saint in particular, and one incurably interested in faith generally. Joseph Smith encouraged us to "get all the good in the world" and to "receive truth, let it come from whence it may." One of those sources for me in 2021 is Islam. I've had important interactions with this faith over the years, including attendance at a lecture in Salt Lake City from Imam Yasir Butt, hearing a speech from Imam Khalid Latif of New York University, and visiting Jerusalem where I frequently heard the muezzin's enchanting calls to prayer.