Prophets as Teachers
Alphonse Dougan
Prophets are the spiritual teachers of humanity. As the people selected by God to deliver His message to humanity, they were exemplary educators...
Ramadan: The time to engage with Muslim donors
Farheen Khan
Ramadan, the month of giving is nearly upon us. If someone was to ask me “When is the single most charitable time of...
The Search for Truth
David Chamber
Truth is to believe and to believe is to see the truth. Sometimes the truth is behind walls, beyond time, in the past,...
Democratic Peace: Perpetual Peace is Possible
Sezai Sadik
The twentieth century was the bloodiest century in human history. From 1900-96, approximately 110 million people died during 250 wars. Wars after 1945...
Understanding Islam
Charles A. Kimball
Christianity and Islam are the two largest religious traditions. Both are global in scope. Together, the adherents of these two communities of...
Living the Golden Rule
Muneeb Nasır
Words that sow divisions; emotional appeals that fuel populism; personal attacks that impute character and indifference that leads to misunderstanding.
More than ever, we...
How Much Inter-religious Conflict is There in Canada
Chris Brnjas,
The Circle
A couple of weeks ago I was at a conference in Ottawa which discussed the relationship between religion and public society. The...
Religion and Human Conflict
Alphonse Dougan
People disillusioned by false practices of faith, as well as the nonreligious, argue that religion brings only fear, misery, and bloodshed to humanity....
Divine Love
Turkan Akman
Many love stories have been told throughout history. The strength of love enables one to fight deadly enemies, accomplish unbearable tasks, and unite...
Resisting Rising Populism
Muneeb Nasir
Populism strives when the fabric of society is frayed.
Demagoguery and populism rise when people give preference to emotions over thinking.
Social media facilitates populist...