Between Thought and Action: An Intellectual Biography of Fethullah Gülen
I follow closely and with great interest what Western thinkers write and think about the Hizmet Movement, how…
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You Are the Placebo
Can our thoughts and beliefs have a powerful effect on our health and well-being? Dr. Joe Dispenza, a…
A Story That Is Not Mine
Every day of our lives is a spot on our map. It can be a success, a failure,…
Words as Pictures
Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center discovered that when we look at a written word, a special part…
Love in the Dark
It was discouragingly dark among the shrubs, and there was the rustle of dead leaves. A half-moon made…
Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology
The liberating document of Vatican Council II, Nostra Aetate, stirred up an enormous interest in interfaith inquiry. One…
The Troubled Watermill – Dertli Dolap: A Commentary
My intention in writing this piece is to elucidate crucial concepts in a poem written by Yunus Emre—concepts…
Dialogs in the Park
Tim and Adam work at the same office. It was Monday. They went to Central Park to have…
The “Powers” of Ignorance
As an instructor of statistics, I sometimes cannot help but explain the phenomena of the social sciences through…
Contemplating God
When the novel coronavirus Covid-19 started to spread across the world at the end of 2019 and beginning…
Less Is More
We always want more. We sometimes so much more for selfish reasons only, turning this desire into greed,…
A Genuine Tolerance
For more than six hundred years, from 1300 until 1922, the Ottoman Empire ruled over a religiously diverse…
For My Brother
Between the ages of six and ten, I stayed up every night waiting for the sound of my…
The New Normal
It was December 31st, 2019 when Wuhan Municipal Health Commission, China, reported a cluster of cases of pneumonia…
Oranges and …
When I visited Thailand years ago, I had the pleasure of tasting about 20 different types of exotic,…