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God in 100 Words

We challenged a dozen bloggers across faith traditions to answer the question: Who (or What) is God, in 100 Words or Less? Their responses - and your chance to participate - are here.

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Mixing It Up: Interfaith Marriage

For some, interfaith marriage is the ultimate reconciliation ceremony, uniting the best of two religions.

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Fear of Falling

When terror strikes, what matters more -- faith or a weapon?

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The Morning Star

At the moment of solstice, however it comes, with or without heavenly messenger, we hear again our calling, life calling us.

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Updates to the Now

Editor McLeod delineates Buddhism's uniqueness: nontheistic, concerned with mind rather than, say, First Cause or unsayable Name; no divine prophet, no sacred book.

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Daughters of Dolma

An inside look at a Tibetan Buddhist nunnery in Nepal.

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We All Want to Be Heard

It has become abundantly clear that we all just want to be heard. We want our voices to count for something, to be noticed, to be cared about.

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War: What Is It Good For?

Is there a way to wage a peaceful war founded in love, kindness, compassion, and equanimity?

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The Coming of Fall

What we each have before us is a day that encompasses everything that it is supposed to be. Regardless of the season, the beauty is present if only we open our eyes.

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Recommended Reading on Buddhism

The riches of Buddhist thought and history come alive in these seven introductions.

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Recipe for Happiness

Mental states of happy and sad hold no significant difference when observed with impartiality (samānattatā).

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Praying with the Poets: God Here, Now

We are oriented to God; we need God. And we may restlessly try to meet that need with countless ephemeral satisfactions, but they do not finally satisfy.

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Naked Before the Sacred

Prayer and meditation can include, especially in theistic traditions, expressing our difficult feelings toward and about God. God is not a china doll. He/she will not break.

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Broken Heart, Open Heart

When we encounter a poverty at the heart of our being, may we always recognize our ultimate existential context: that we always and everywhere live in the presence of the divine.

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Anger on a Small, Crowded Planet

To overcome negative, destructive social confrontations, it is not necessary that we all agree, that we find unanimity. Such a quest is inevitably bound to fail.

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America Has a State Religion, and It Is Greed

I'm all for the separation of church and state, but there's one serious repercussion of this separation that may be our undoing.

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