We crave the closure of explanations and answers, but what if we were enlivened by the questions themselves? On the evolution of his own faith — from a hunger for certainty to awe at the ineffable.
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To change another to better fit our own ideals is not love; it is domination. Instead, to truly love is to engage joyfully in our differences and to bring out the best in our unique potential — in personal relationships, and in community.
Hip-hop's spiritual lineage stretches back to long before the Golden Era of BDP and De La Soul. On bearing fearless witness to the black struggle, black courage, and black being — in Chance the Rapper's era, and in Job's.
On the perils of placing all our hope in a utopian future — and the real possibility for change that lies in our actions, here and now.
Can the occasional cathartic rant lead to healing? The virtue of letting our frustrations be heard — from Russian novels and the Book of Job to a Catholic women's "pray and bitch" prayer group.
A searching exploration of the "white imagination" — and how it not only influences white people but also people of color's lenses on the world.
Rather than focusing on what's beyond the limits of ordinary experience, we might be better served focusing on what's within.
In a turning cultural tide, non-religious Millennials and the Christian church find themselves at odds. But do they have to be?
American politics is caught between two competing ideologies: Nietzsche's doctrine of strength and power over weakness, and the Judeo-Christian ethics of humility and compassion for the weak. A young theologian seeks to understand American civil religion.
For the closing days of Ramadan, a young Catholic scholar shows us that we can look to many sources outside one's own religious canon to find meaning and pay attention to the world before us.
In the wake of the attacks in Manchester, an artist’s impassioned appeal to the West to cast off the scourge of collective responsibility for terrorism — and embrace the world's 1.8 billion Muslims as partners not adversaries in the battle against extreme violence.
Our stories hold power no matter the circumstances of our lives. A Hmong-American woman looks on her father's modest life, and her own — through refugee camps in Thailand to their new life in the American Midwest — and reveals lessons from the powerless on our inherent dignity, even through our most vulnerable times.
A Dutch theologian explains the religious principles at the heart of Trump's choice for U.S. Secretary of Education. Hint: it's a Dutch neo-Calvinist minister and politician.
Acknowledging the limits of our own experience, and the spiritual challenge of building deep relationships with those outside our cultural comfort zones.
The moral authority of frail bodies. Vulnerability as strength. How solidarity can lead to resurrection.
Love and gratitude can be daring, disruptive acts in a world that insists on conflict and endless craving.
There’s no such thing as finding belonging too late. In mid-life, a writer delves into the stories and traditions of her Jewish heritage, and discovers a sense of kinship more extensive and profound than any she’d experienced before.
A balm for burnout: self-love and a guided meditation to empower us to take a stand — literally — for our own right to be happy and whole.
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