# Religion

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## [Trusting Again: On the God Emerging From Faith Reconstruction](/content/2025/07/25/trusting-again-on-the-god-emerging-from-faith-reconstruction/index.html)
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.

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## [Beyond the Clock to a Sacred Phenomenology of Time](/content/2025/07/24/beyond-the-clock-to-a-sacred-phenomenology-of-time/index.html)
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…

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## [Your Job and Cancer Are Nothing: Part III](/content/2023/03/17/your-job-and-cancer-are-nothing-part-iii/index.html)
Bringing meditation techniques into his new role as a middle school teacher, a former academic finds some resolution despite a new crisis.

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## [Your Job and Cancer Are Nothing: Part II](/content/2023/03/10/your-job-and-cancer-are-nothing-part-ii/index.html)
As a recently laid-off academic becomes more immersed in a sangha, he tries to reconcile his newfound zazen practice with his western background.

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## [Your Job and Cancer Are Nothing: Part I](/content/2023/03/03/your-job-and-cancer-are-nothing-part-i/index.html)
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…

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## [Natural Mysticism and Its Dangerous Allure](/content/2020/09/14/natural-mysticism-religion-dangers-perennialism/index.html)
Natural mysticism focuses on awakening us from our ego-bound ordinary life to a universal oneness. But it comes with many dangers.

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## [To Tread Lightly in Thin Places](/content/2020/05/20/breaking-through-tread-lightly-thin-places-spiritual-emergency/index.html)
A former barefoot guru explores the difficulty in articulating the experience of a spiritual emergency amid societal upheavals.

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## [Unlearning Some Western Mindsets](/content/2019/07/31/unlearning-western-mindset-children/index.html)
An over-reliance on our Western Mindset creates several obstacles to human flourishing—informing agriculture, education, work, and parenting.