Religion

Trusting Again: On the God Emerging From Faith Reconstruction

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.

Beyond the Clock to a Sacred Phenomenology of Time

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…

Your Job and Cancer Are Nothing: Part III

Bringing meditation techniques into his new role as a middle school teacher, a former academic finds some resolution despite a new crisis.

Your Job and Cancer Are Nothing: Part II

As a recently laid-off academic becomes more immersed in a sangha, he tries to reconcile his newfound zazen practice with his western background.

Your Job and Cancer Are Nothing: Part I

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…

Natural Mysticism and Its Dangerous Allure

Natural mysticism focuses on awakening us from our ego-bound ordinary life to a universal oneness. But it comes with many dangers.

To Tread Lightly in Thin Places

A former barefoot guru explores the difficulty in articulating the experience of a spiritual emergency amid societal upheavals.

Unlearning Some Western Mindsets

An over-reliance on our Western Mindset creates several obstacles to human flourishing—informing agriculture, education, work, and parenting.