It’s Not Helping
What can you do when compassion shows up as frustration? Karen Kissel Wegela on how to be present with our own helplessness. Read More
What can you do when compassion shows up as frustration? Karen Kissel Wegela on how to be present with our own helplessness. Read More
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
Have we chosen numbness over social and political involvement? Author Margaret Wheatley on silence as a choice, and the cost of not speaking up. Read More
Can one person really make a difference? Marc Ian Barasch plants a seed of good intention... Read More
... the businesswoman, and the writer Lily Koppel, author of The Red Leather Diary, reconnects with her childhood circle to explore the spiritual quest of a generation. 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
Barry Boyce talks to Irshad Manji about her book, The Trouble with Islam, and her call for an age of Islamic reform. 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