Thoughts from a Catholic Hermitage
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
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
An inspiring story from the terrible days of the Holocaust leads Diane Ackerman, best-selling author of The Natural History of the Senses, and the Zoo Keeper’s Wife, to contemplate the nature of compassion, courage, and empathy. Read More
Diane Ackerman, best-selling author of Cultivating Delight, and The Zoo Keeper’s Wife, on the ancient tradition of meditation and mysticism that sustained two heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto. Read More
So much talk of morality today is marked by aggression and self-righteousness, but Robert Coles speaks in a gentler and deeper moral voice. David Swick profiles this child psychiatrist, civil rights activist, and author who has spent his life considering the nature of morality and its central place in our lives. Read More
Like any progressive mother, Karen Maezen Miller was torn when her daughter entered the Barbie stage. But what's worse—Barbie’s commercialism and hypersexuality, or Mom’s grown-up judgments and concepts? Read More
Author Karen Maezen Miller offers quick and practical guidelines for maintaining a mindfulness practice throughout your day. Read More
Anne Cushman's young son, Skye, keeps her on her toes with his many questions: How do we know the things we know? How do we justify our decisions? Read More
“The time of childhood is going to go fast,” says Rick Bass, author of Where the Sea Used to Be. “I’m doing what I can to slow it down.” Read More