On Father’s Day Ask: Where Are The Children?

06.17.2018 ________________________________________ In Genesis we are told that when Abraham saw three men standing near him and, unaware they were Continue reading →

Tamer’s ‘Rihla’: Journey of Enlightenment and Love

06.10.2018 ________________________________________ “How was your flight?” “Great. I flew from Amman to Newark where I went through customs, then caught Continue reading →

Episcopal Café: Pentecost, Ramadan, and Knowing

06.03.2018 ________________________________________ This is an edited version of a sermon I delivered at the Jackson (NH) Community Church on May Continue reading →

Ramadan: Big Mac, Fries, Side of Humility

06.03.2018 ________________________________________ “Dinner will be on the table precisely at sun-set. The favour of an answer is asked.” So read Continue reading →

Memorial Day: Kneel in Worship, Kneel in Tribute

05.27.2018 ________________________________________  in March, 2018, Stephon Clark was murdered in the yard of his grandmother’s house in Sacramento CA. Police Continue reading →

Amritsar.Sharpeville.Gaza: Will It Never End?

05.20.2018 _________________________________________  Gaza is red with blood, dark in grief, mired in poverty and dysfunction, yet not without dignity. In Continue reading →

Regime Change: Be Careful What You Wish For

05.13.2018 ________________________________________  American policy, John Bolton wrote in the Wall Street Journal in January, “should be ending Iran’s 1979 Islamic Continue reading →

Resist: Resist Normalizing the Abnormal

05.06.2018 ________________________________________ “These are the times that try men’s souls,” Thomas Paine wrote in 1776. “The summer soldier and the Continue reading →