God’s Existence and Natural Disasters
Source: The longest serving Muslim publication of North America: Muslim Sunrise Winter 2017 volume November, 2017 Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Hurricane season […]
The Buddha – PBS Documentary
Suggested Reading Can You Chant from the Bible or the Quran to Bliss and Happiness? 5 Mantras to Help You Become Calm and Confident Albert Einstein: ‘Everything is A Miracle!’ The Question of […]
Two Words for the Christian Apologist Ravi Zacharias: Biological Evolution
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Suffering and the question of suffering is our shared destiny. Today millions are homeless in different parts […]
Did God choose Trump? What it means to believe in divine intervention
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe (Editor’s note: Since Donald Trump’s victory in last year’s election, many Christians became convinced he was chosen by God to be president even though he […]
Is God to Blame for Our Food Crisis?
Source: The Huffington Post By Kashif N. Chaudhry; Physician, writer and human rights activist A one-liner by Indian actor Kamal Haasan caught my eye on social media recently. It read, “I […]
Why Doesn't God Always Heal? Prayer and Incurable Cancer
Source: The Huffington Post J. Todd Billings; Theology Prof, Cancer Patient, Disciple of Jesus Christ If God desires our well-being, why doesn’t he always grant prayers for healing? “There’s no doubt about your diagnosis,” the doctor told me. I squirmed in my chair as I heard the numbers: according to the […]
Why Doesn’t God Always Heal? Prayer and Incurable Cancer
Source: The Huffington Post J. Todd Billings; Theology Prof, Cancer Patient, Disciple of Jesus Christ If God desires our well-being, why doesn’t he always grant prayers for healing? “There’s no doubt about your diagnosis,” the doctor told me. I squirmed in my chair as I heard the numbers: according to the […]
God On Trial: A Television Play about Holocaust
God on Trial is a 2008 BBC/WGBH Boston television play written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, starring Antony Sher, Rupert Graves and Jack Shepherd. The play takes place in Auschwitz during […]
What Suffering Does: A Collection of Articles
Epigraph: And We (Allah) will try you with something of fear and hunger, and loss of wealth and lives, and fruits; but give glad tidings to the patient, who, when a misfortune overtakes them, say, ‘Surely, to Allah we belong and to Him shall we return.’ It is these on whom […]
A Christian and an agnostic debate the question of suffering
… On November 11, 2010, Dinesh D’Souza, former White House domestic policy analyst and recently appointed president of Kings College, debated Bart Ehrman, James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The debate—which was sponsored by the Center for Christian Studies—took place […]