I recently read Joseph Murphy’s seminal work The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, and it left me thinking about how...
While the caravan struggles along a muddy riverside path, tempers fray, Chen catches fish, merchants risk their necks for pistachios, and Darius waits anxiously for Ahmed...
A reflection on Bergen County, faith, and the quiet ache of spiritual misalignment I. The Hardness of a Place There is a particular hardness to...
Darius helps select new guards for the Five Star caravan, and a fun trip to the suq comes to a sudden, chaotic end.
The deserts were deserted but for traveling on foot or by animals. From city to city were scattered thorny bushes, hot sand, and a lonely well...
As I write this, Ramadan is still about six months away. Some may wonder why we should speak about Ramadan now. Yet, over the years, I...
Human beings are constantly engaged in internal battles. According to Robert Greene in his book The 33 Strategies of War, humans have a continuous battle within...
Perhaps no country is as identified with the American war on terror that began twenty-five years ago than Afghanistan; its launchpad and the site of what...
A troubled Darius is comforted by Ahmed, confronts a prince, and meets a pair of fearsome Kurdish mercenaries.
The most dangerous religious deepfake may not look strange at all. It may show a scholar we have listened to for twenty years sitting in a...
The Canadian government’s subscription to a growing trend of conflation between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism has attracted controversy from Independent Jewish Voices, a grassroots advocacy group that...
