The Gulen Movement: A Shared Bridge between the U.S. and Islam
“Life is a shared bridge of “passing over” and “coming back.” It is a passing over to other…
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The Solar Eclipse and Its Fine Balance
A heavenly spectacle happening every 6585.32 days, lasting up to 7.5 seconds, can be seen along a track…
Dawn Comes in Dreams
The spirit wanders through the night To find a way out Toward that which it seeks and longs…
Securing Peace and Democracy: Consocational Democracy and the Role of Religious Leaders
A consocational democracy is a type of democracy which emphasizes the importance of power-sharing and decision-making among different…
YNU: Your Nature University
Today, many grade-school children do not know that milk comes from cows and eggs come from chickens. They…
How Many Tsunamis May I Survive?
Postmodernism includes theories that recognize and aim to create diversity. This creates the following dilemma: to what an…
Seeing Near: A Blessing We Take for Granted
There are so many blessings in life, granted to us free of charge, which we take for granted.…
The Test
Life is a chain of tests, ensuing one after another. It is a human condition we experience from…
Growing in Cascades
The Fountain Magazine is delighted to welcome two new editions to its growing family—Revista Cascada and Ebru-two saplings…
USA: A panel discussion on “Science and/vs Religion” at SMU
On Jan 31st, 2013, Institute of Interfaith Dialogue organized a panel discussion at SMU titled “Science and/vs Religion”.…
Science Square (Issue 91)
Bats are the only mammals that are able to fly and they make up almost one quarter of…
The Nature Of The Self
The ego1 is basically what we call the essence of human nature with qualities that are prone for…
Rise Up
Rise up, valiant one, stop sleeping! Rise up, because my heart is lamenting… During the days having passed…
Basira and Firasa
Literally meaning perception, intelligence, discretion, evidence, and witness, insight (basira) is defined as having an eye of the…
Little Professor Syndrome
Autism—and its milder cousin Asperger’s—affects 1 in 150 children across the US. Speculation goes that people like Albert Einstein,…