From one of the most influential religious and social leaders of our time.
What Is Faith?
The problem of the nature of faith plagues us all our lives. Is openness to other ideas infidelity, or is it the beginning of spiritual maturity?
What Is Faith?
The problem of the nature of faith plagues us all our lives. Is openness to other ideas infidelity, or is it the beginning of spiritual maturity?
Empty times for everyone
What is worse than the actual event of death is the awareness of the degree of loss that comes with it.
Empty times for everyone
What is worse than the actual event of death is the awareness of the degree of loss that comes with it.
Would I do it all again?
When we’re young, everything is about the future. It’s where we’re going next that counts. In early middle age, the big question in life is whether we are where we’re...
Would I do it all again?
When we’re young, everything is about the future. It’s where we’re going next that counts. In early middle age, the big question in life is whether we are where we’re...
The very thought of simply listening
Of all the attitudes we bring to prayer, presence is at once one of the simplest and one of the most difficult. Buddhists call it “taming a monkey mind.” We...
The very thought of simply listening
Of all the attitudes we bring to prayer, presence is at once one of the simplest and one of the most difficult. Buddhists call it “taming a monkey mind.” We...
Life will become its own reward
The sixth step of humility is to be “content with the lowest and most menial treatment.” We might say, “to be content with less than the best.”
Life will become its own reward
The sixth step of humility is to be “content with the lowest and most menial treatment.” We might say, “to be content with less than the best.”
Masks, vaccines and rights in the land of freed...
Last September, I wrote about a woman I'd seen but did not know who said a lot to me about the world I was living in. It was a world...
Masks, vaccines and rights in the land of freed...
Last September, I wrote about a woman I'd seen but did not know who said a lot to me about the world I was living in. It was a world...