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The Trouble with Islam: Irshad Manji’s Call for Reform and the Revival of Ijtihad
Barry Boyce talks to Irshad Manji about her book, The Trouble with Islam, and her call for an age of Islamic reform. Read More 
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Mind, Matter, or God?
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
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God Is Big These Days: Karen Armstrong on Fundamentalism, Compassion, and the Future of Religion
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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The Zookeeper’s Wife: Radical Compassion, Empathy, and Civilian Courage
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
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The Thisness of What Is
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
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Breaking Habits with Steve Flowers
Barry Boyce reports on one psychotherapist who is helping free individuals of their social anxiety using cognitive therapy and mindfulness. Read More
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Don’t Overthink You: Mindfulness of Being Seen and Belonging
Whether you’re one of a kind or one in a crowd, says Sylvia Boorstein, you’re still going to have to deal with the mind’s instinct to make a big deal of itself. Read More
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Friends & Enemies
When a sharp word turns a friend into an enemy, it’s always difficult to go back to the way things were. Sylvia Boorstein tells her own story of estrangement and healing. Read More
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Mindful Childbirth
Pregnancy, birth and early parenting are the most transformational time in the adult life cycle. Barry Boyce reports on a mindfulness center that teaches skills that interrupts patterns of dysfunction. Read More
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Robert Coles and the Moral Life
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
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