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About Abdu Murray
Abdu Murray is a speaker, author, and attorney who specializes in addressing issues where religious faith and emerging cultural trends intersect and collide. For most of his life, Abdu was a proud Muslim until a nine-year historical, philosophical, theological, and scientific investigation pointed him to the Christian faith. Since founding Embrace the Truth in 2004, Abdu has spent decades analyzing how the major religious and non-religious thought traditions have attempted to address emerging cultural issues.
He has authored several books including Saving Truth, Grand Central Question, Apocalypse Later, More than a White Man’s Religion, and the forthcoming Fake ID: How A.I. and Identity Ideology Are Collapsing Reality-And What to Do About It. His podcast and YouTube show All Rise has reached millions around the world.
Murray has tackled complex issues in Q&A forums, debates, and dialogues at leading universities such as Yale, Berkeley, MIT, University of Michigan, University of Florida, Laurentian University, San Marcos University, Universidad Cientifica del Sur, and others around the world. He has also addressed political and business leaders in countries such as the United States, Canada, Peru, and Hong Kong.
Abdu holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor and earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School. While an attorney at two major law firms in Detroit, he was named to Best Lawyers in America and to Michigan Super Lawyers. Murray lives in the Metro Detroit area with his wife and their three children.
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In the Press
USA Today
Abdu is interviewed about the needs of the country in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination.
Breakpoint
"From Cancel Culture to Assassination Culture?" Devaluing human life turns hashtags and de-platforming to bullets and bombs.
The Hill
"The Tragedy in the Middle East, from a Christian convert's perspective." Since Oct. 7, 2023, people around the world have been grieving a tragedy with a complex history. ...
Fox News
"How Stereotypical Barbie might shatter stereotypes about the Bible." Barbie and the Bible share a strang affinity -- the culture's love/hate affections.
Books
Fake ID
Fake ID: How A.I. and Identity Ideology Are Collapsing Reality - And What to Do About It (David C. Cook, 2026)
More Than a White Man's Religion
Though many today accuse Christianity of being a white, imperialistic religion, it is actually the source for cherished Western ideals of racial and gender equality. In More Than a White Man's Religion, author and speaker Abdu Murray shares stories from the Bible and his own experiences as a global apologist, a member of an ethnic minority, a son of immigrants, and a former Muslim to show that the gospel message provides dignity and liberty to non-whites and women.
Saving Truth
How can Christians defend truth and clarity in a world that rejects both? Western culture now prizes confusion—on sexuality, morality, and spirituality—while condemning certainty as arrogance. This “Culture of Confusion” prompted Oxford to name “post-truth” the 2016 word of the year, a trend only growing stronger. In Saving Truth, Abdu Murray exposes this phenomenon and calls Christians to uphold clarity in freedom, dignity, identity, faith, and morality.
Grand Central Question
All worldviews seek to answer life’s deepest questions: Why am I here? What does it mean to be human? Why is there evil? Yet each emphasizes a different concern—secular humanism: human value, pantheism: escaping suffering, Islam: God’s greatness. Former Muslim and lawyer Abdu Murray examines these worldviews with clarity and compassion, contrasting their answers with Christianity’s message about purpose, humanity, evil, and hope.
Apocalypse Later
It's time to start proclaiming the good news. Many evangelicals have used the ongoing conflict in the Middle East as fodder for debates over how to interpret prophecy, instead of seeing it as the human tragedy that it is. In Apocalypse Later, former Muslim Abdu H. Murray urges Christians to change their focus from eschatology to the gospel of Jesus Christ, because only Christ can change the hearts of Jews and Muslims in the midst of conflict.
