Religion
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A growing movement of believers are rejecting the notion of an all-powerful God, finding inspiration and comfort in a morally relatable, but limited God.
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Modern life has created a spiritual crisis around time. By combining Henri Bergson’s concept of lived time (durée) with Shia Islamic metaphysics, we might move…
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Bringing meditation techniques into his new role as a middle school teacher, a former academic finds some resolution despite a new crisis.
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As a recently laid-off academic becomes more immersed in a sangha, he tries to reconcile his newfound zazen practice with his western background.
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Faced with his wife’s cancer diagnosis, a lack of affordable housing, and losing his job in academia, Donovan Irven turns to Zen Buddhism to resolve…
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Natural mysticism focuses on awakening us from our ego-bound ordinary life to a universal oneness. But it comes with many dangers.
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A former barefoot guru explores the difficulty in articulating the experience of a spiritual emergency amid societal upheavals.
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An over-reliance on our Western Mindset creates several obstacles to human flourishing—informing agriculture, education, work, and parenting.