Social Issues

Never gossip! Nothing good has ever sprung from gossiping and, for the most part, it is reminiscent of a coward’s strategy in discussing matters pertaining to people who are not present, and passing only negative [...]

Imagine if we decided to stop purchasing print books. Publishers would not be happy to hear this. The publishing industry has made some promotional efforts to show concern for the environment. But most publishing houses [...]

One of the arguments against veganism derives from the natural setting. Lions prey on other animals. They eat other animals. Those against veganism suggest we should also live in this fashion and prey on other [...]

“If you want to identify someone’s character, examine the friends he sits with.” (Ali ibn Abi Talib) A convenient way of identifying people’s characters is to study their environment. This will allow the observer to [...]

The amount of love animals share is simply astonishing. How little love humans share in comparison. We actually have such a scarcity of love that we have created an industry around spiritual movements, scientific studies, [...]

How closely do we relate to identical nurturing traditions in different animal species as testament to God’s oneness?   The likeness of all forms of life to care for their young is a sign of [...]

Globally, 620 million children lack basic education, math and reading skills, due to a lack of structured education programs and government funding. Of the two billion children globally, about a third cannot compute or read [...]

The hunger pandemic kills around 8,000 children daily. The vaccine for it exists; it’s called “food.” Unfortunately, we will not hear much about hunger in the media, mostly because it does not relate to the [...]

All seemingly evil atrocities happen because a few people cannot get their ideas about their goals and intentions heard in the way they would have hoped for. They then decide to form a group and, [...]

I used to practically live on my blue couch, contemplating life. Unfortunately, I quickly discovered that life off my blue couch was not quite as filled with love. The life I was experiencing on the [...]

A significant problem in our world is that the people championing love through spiritual empowerment are deafened by those championing spiritual empowerment through oppression. We pass laws for abortion and pay close attention to every [...]

The practice of quarantine, or physical isolation, we use in times of mass sickness was initiated about 700 years ago in a Venetian port city. It remains the best scientific and all-round defense we have [...]