Staring at the View

It was an epiphany, an Aha moment as Oprah might say. I was driving to a class where for a week we had been seriously studying twelve abili...

Where does your mind go when it's not in the present? To the future, or the past? Some friends recently discussed that question in a ...

I was recently at the funeral of a relative. It's a family where an ancient incident has resulted in a complete estrangement between tw...

Zachery Chesser is a young man from Virginia serving a 25-year prison sentence for providing material support to an Islamic terrorist organ...

The Arabic expression Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem , in the name of God, the Compassionate and Merciful One, is one of the most famous in t...

Scriptural literalists believe every word of their sacred texts is true historically as well as in every other way. For Christians and Jews,...

Arabic last names often indicate where someone comes from. Yahya al-Libi is known to be from Libya, Hasan al-Masri from Egypt (Masr is Egypt...