by The Rev. Jamie L. Hamilton | Mar 1, 2026 | Ramadan & Ash Wednesday, Reflections
There is no living creature on earth but depends on its sustenance on God; and He knows its time-limit on earth and its resting-place after death, all this is laid down in a clear decree. Surah 11:6 Often, the Qur’an reminds us that God has full knowledge of what is...
by The Rev. Jamie L. Hamilton | Feb 28, 2026 | Ramadan & Ash Wednesday, Reflections
Which, then, is the better: he who has founded his building on God-consciousness and a desire for His goodly acceptance – or he who has founded his building on the edge of a water-worn, crumbling river-bank, so that it is bound to tumble down? Surah 9:110 So many of...
by The Rev. Jamie L. Hamilton | Feb 27, 2026 | Ramadan & Ash Wednesday, Reflections
And they who have attained to faith and who have forsaken the domain of evil and are striving hard in God’s cause, as well as those who shelter and succor them – it is they, they who are truly believers! Forgiveness of sins awaits them, and a most excellent...
by The Rev. Jamie L. Hamilton | Feb 26, 2026 | Ramadan & Ash Wednesday, Reflections
Those who follow the Messenger, the Unlettered Prophet, of whom they find notice in their own writings, in the Torah and the Gospel: he directs them to what is fair, and restrains them from iniquity; and he makes good things lawful to them, and prohibits what is bad....
by The Rev. Jamie L. Hamilton | Feb 25, 2026 | Helpful Information
There is a voice missing, one that is multi-lingual; its singing never rising from one throat, always ringing beyond individual vocal chords, identities, characteristics, or features, that echoes throughout the land a strangely controversial idea:Â The true measure of...