Thanksgiving: Finding Grace and Gratitude in Fitra

11.26.2020 ________________________________________ This Thanksgiving week I participated in an interfaith service. Each of the participants was asked to speak on Continue reading →

Ramadan Mubarak: A Letter to My Friends

04.26.2020 ________________________________________ Ramadan 2020 began Thursday, April 23, at sunset. Fasting for the believers began Friday morning and will continue, Continue reading →

All is Not Well: Don’t Go Back to Sleep

01.12.2020 ________________________________________ “There is more going on … than the clumsy interventions of the west in Iraq and Afghanistan and Continue reading →

A Ramadan Letter To My Friends 2.0

05.05.2019 ________________________________________ (Author’s note: Ramadan begins today at sunset – Fasting begins tomorrow. The following column, here slightly modified, was Continue reading →

Advent: Reflecting Upon a Caravan to Bethlehem

12.02.2018 ________________________________________ Today, according to the Christian calendar, is the first Sunday of Advent, the season observed in many Christian Continue reading →

Ungrateful? Overpaid? Huddled Masses From Every Corner

07.22.2018 ________________________________________  Sports transcends color and borders. Like it or not we live within an intersectional mobile world of movement Continue reading →

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 →

Weed Out Roots of Sadness From Your Heart

03.25.2018 ________________________________________ Most humanitarians, secularists and people of faith, regardless of theology or philosophy, embrace the belief that how we Continue reading →