Faith and Europe’s enlightenment

Credit: Express Tribune: The Dark Ages is the period Europe spent in ignorance of Greek knowledge. How did Europe get out of this period? We saw last week —  in my oped titled “A brief history of modernity” published in this newspaper on March 18 — how the foundations of […]

Does Death Exist?

Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think. One well-known aspect of quantum physics […]

‘The Circle Maker’: A New Way to Pray

Source: Huff Post This past Easter I attended the President’s Easter Prayer Breakfast at the White House along with a couple hundred religious leaders from across the country. Before breakfast, a 76-year-old African-American preacher who served alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement offered a prayer. I […]