Social Issues

“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 [...]

A wise person was once asked, “Why do you not take revenge from those who hurt you?”    The wise sage laughingly responded: “If you were gored by a bull, would you then suggest running [...]

Good things come from using various platforms to stand united for equality, justice, and love. There is currently one professional athlete who is willing to put his career on hold to address the injustices of [...]

If the fight for Jewish war reparations is going to be a victorious one, then every African American person in the USA should also be compensated because most white people with ancestry from the southern [...]