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2024 Essay Contest Winners
...And the winners are:
1st Place
“Home Is Tucked Under the Smiling Sunflower Seeds” by Azra Ozturk
2nd Place
“Home Is Kobayashi Issa’s Cherry Blossoms” by Moon Taha Teen Nikita
3rd Place
“Ho...
2024 Essay Contest Top Ten
Let's up the excitement a bit higher! Here is the Top Ten. Award winners will be announced very soon!!
“My Home, My Stability” by Michaela Harhajova
“A Mosquito Meets a Memory” by Maggie Whelan...
2024 Essay Contest Shortlist
Countdown to the winners is around the corner! Here is the shortlist for Essay Contest 2024. We congratulate all the participants. Winners will be announced very soon. Please follow our announcemen...
The Fountain Essay Contest 2024
“Home” holds a special place in our lives. A large, luxurious mansion or a small, decrepit place, our homes are hard to replace with anything. Our earliest memories form inside its walls; we utter ...
2022-2023 Essay Contest Winners
...And the winners are:
A Silent Ticking Time Bomb, by Keneth Erfelua
What Is Distraction? by Colm O_Shea
A Trip to the Zoo, by Zulma Suro
Unplugging the Mind: Reclaiming Focus in the Age of ...
2023 Essay Contest Shortlist
Countdown to the winners is around the corner! Here is the shortlist. Winners will be announced very soon. Please follow our announcements!
“Distraction Timed,” by Allison Hope
“Unplugging the ...
Religion
Parents: The First Teachers in the School of Humanity
It is very interesting to note the importance that God places on children respecting and honoring parents. The fifth through the tenth commandments in the Ten Commandments deal with man's relations...
Istanbul: Conversations on Life, Knowledge, and Belief
November 4-10, 2013 / Istanbul, Turkey
The Fountain organized a three-day conference in Istanbul featuring scholars and academics from diverse disciplines to convene and discuss some philosophical...
An Opportunity to Heal and Make Whole
How can anyone residing in the United States, or for that matter living in any other part of the world, forget the horror of September 11, 2001, when commercial airliners, piloted by terrorists pos...
Jihad in Islam and Christianity
Politicians and anti-Muslim activists frequently take to audiences and websites to criticize the term jihad as a form of Islamic supremacism, oppression, and violence. Muslim extremists, on the oth...
Christianity in the Qur'anic Perspective
Based upon what was mentioned in part 1 of this article, I will now discuss how the Qur'an views Jesus, a major figure in both religions. The paper concludes with the suggestion that the many paral...