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.
View ArticleMixing It Up: Interfaith Marriage
For some, interfaith marriage is the ultimate reconciliation ceremony, uniting the best of two religions.
View ArticleThe Morning Star
At the moment of solstice, however it comes, with or without heavenly messenger, we hear again our calling, life calling us.
View ArticleUpdates 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.
View ArticleWe 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.
View ArticleWar: What Is It Good For?
Is there a way to wage a peaceful war founded in love, kindness, compassion, and equanimity?
View ArticleThe 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.
View ArticleRecommended Reading on Buddhism
The riches of Buddhist thought and history come alive in these seven introductions.
View ArticleRecipe for Happiness
Mental states of happy and sad hold no significant difference when observed with impartiality (samānattatā).
View ArticlePraying 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.
View ArticleNaked 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.
View ArticleBroken 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.
View ArticleAnger 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.
View ArticleAmerica 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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