The life and journey of a leaf
I was created as a small bud on the dry branch of a huge oak tree. The oak…
Service
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Civic Service Without Borders
The Gulen Movement: Civic Service without BordersMuhammed ÇetinNew York: Blue Dome Press, 2009ISBN: 978-1-935295-08-2Hardcover, US$ 18.95400 pages “[The…
Thinking
I was sitting by the beach and thinking about anything, everything, yet nothing all at once… The waves…
Faith, Theology and Service in Peacebuilding
Fethullah Gulen’s work and thinking starts and ends in faith. In a world that commonly extends conflict by…
The “Turkish Letters” of Ogier G. de Busbecq (1520-1592)
The Ottomans had a strong cultural and political presence over the Middle East, North Africa and South Eastern…
Time Management
Question: How should a person spend one day, one week, one month, and one year in order to…
What should be the understanding of Mujaddin our time?
Q: What should be the understanding of “Mujaddid” in our time? Does it refer to a single individual…
Service-Learning: An Alternative Teaching and Pedagogy
Civic commitment has been a major emphasis of education around the world since ancient times. Public education was…
Nonprofit Organizations in Modern Societies
Nonprofit organizations (henceforward “nonprofits”) are those agencies that are nongovernmental entities incorporated under state laws as charitable not-for-profit…
A Nursi Reader – Be Kind to Your Parents
In this series of articles, A Nursi Reader, the aim is to present the thoughts of the famous…
Earth: A Corner of the Universe Touched by Mercy
The worth of ‘ecosystem services’ has recently been priced at $33 trillion total per year (Nature 1997, vol.…
Meditations On A Verse Of The Book
In the verse just quoted are eleven phrases; each of them affirms the Divine Unity and carries a…