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Zia H Shah

He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes

Scenic “Mount Vernon” is in Texas

By Saeed Qureshi While searching through Texas Tourism Department’s website for finding the sight-seeing places around Dallas/Fort Worth, we came across a curious name: “Mount Vernon”. Although there were quite a few other scenic locations, yet we decided to visit this place. It is one of those unique towns that […]

Keeping Alive The Big Questions

Source: The Huffington Post By Jaweed Kaleem: jaweed.kaleem@huffingtonpost.com Twenty years ago, Evgenia Cherkasova and Elena Kornilov were doctoral students in their mid-20s, living in the same housing complex at Penn State University. As they pursued their degrees — Cherkasova in philosophy, Kornilov in physics — both started families, and to take a […]

Original Sin: Can the Church now Become Liberal?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  For other uses, see Original Sin (disambiguation). See also: Fate of the unlearned Michelangelo‘s painting of the sin of Adam and Eve from the Sistine Chapel ceiling According to a Christian theological doctrine, original sin, also called ancestral sin,[1] is humanity’s state of sin resulting from the fall of man,[2] stemming from Adam’s rebellion in Eden. […]

An Iron-Clad Proof of God

Source: The Huffington Post By Rabbi Adam Jacobs: Managing Director, Aish Center in Manhattan A few months back I had the pleasure of watching the film “In Our Own Time,” a surprisingly engaging documentary about the Bee Gees. Toward the end of the film, Barry Gibb mused that even a few years […]