When Meg Federico helped start up a program for lonely older people and their caregivers, she didn’t know what she was getting into: a goofy, loving atmosphere where people come to life and living in the present is the only option. Read More 
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Michael Stroud, unsure about how to be both a Buddhist and a Jew, talks with well-known Buddhists who have returned home to Judaism. They’ve found it fulfilling to practice both Buddhism and the religion of their birth. Read More
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Pico Iyer, author of Sun After Dark: Flights into the Foreign, on the time he spends at a Catholic hermitage, a place by the sea where creation unites with the light inside. Read More
As the so-called new atheists go toe-to-toe with religious literalists, where do meditators stand? Barry Boyce reports on the middle way embracing both reason and the reality beyond it. Read More
Karen Armstrong, author of The Case for God, wants to reclaim religion. Michael Valpy talked to this author, speaker, and activist about the problems with fundamentalism and secular modernity. Read More
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