Can being lost be productive? Our columnist on lingering in the mystery of our purpose — and surrendering to the paths that choose us.
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How can we nurture our identity and faith if we don't feel recognized for who we are? A reflection on yearning for a community that truly sees us.
Do we second-guess ourselves to the point of poisoning the trust in our own abilities?
Omid Safi on the experience of being institutionally invisible — and how our structures and spirits might change to acknowledge each other's entire being.
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.
The personal growth that comes from activities we do for joy, rather than status or reward — whether it's painting murals or sprucing up cars, pick-up basketball or beekeeping.
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.
Challenging the notion of the “Muslim world,” what dedication to peace looks like, and the weight words — and actions — carry.
Is it enough to be tolerant of each other? Omid Safi yearns for more, and imagines a more loving embrace of our diversity.
A Greek Orthodox woman’s meditation on loss, redemption, and finding belonging in the Easter season.
Creating a false division between life and work has its own pitfalls.
The human soul is a thing to name and celebrate, no matter how we understand its fickle, mysterious nature.
College rejection and acceptance letters are in the post this time of year. Our columnist drops truth on how rejection can teach us to find value in ourselves, and not in the affirmation of the decision-making process of an admissions department.
A tribute to Maya Angelou for her birthday — with a reflection on her poem "Still I Rise," a fiery assertion of self.
A young woman on growing up half-Chinese and half-Irish in Southern California's largest Asian enclave, and the journey to understanding her "hapa" identity not as incoherent parts, but as a perfect whole.
The elemental closeness of a mother to her children, and to her own body.
In the resonant voice of Valarie Kaur, Omid Safi finds hope for the painful but fruitful path that we must take forward as a nation.
There's a profound solitude in asking the challenging, radical question. A Muslim reformer finds a deep and consoling truth in the face of this reality in the voice of a poet.
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