• Religion

    Twins

    Is There Any Bond Stronger than Twinship?

    History, Mythology and Literature Say No

     
    By Helena de Bres  November 8, 2023
    Divine Inspiration

    Too Good To Be True: How Angels Continue to Inspire

    By Ed Simon  October 20, 2023
    Immigrant Stories

    The Divided Self is Every Immigrant’s Legacy

    By Thrity Umrigar  October 13, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    The (Not So) Lost Buddhisms of India

    By Douglas Ober  October 5, 2023
    Cundill History Prize

    On the Multifaceted Women Who Inspired Saint Augustine

    By Kate Cooper  October 4, 2023
    Spirituality

    Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood

    By Halle Hill  September 21, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Cosmology

    On the “Inverted Cosmos”—From Aristotle to the Middle Ages

    By William Egginton  August 30, 2023
    Black History

    How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

    By Christopher Cameron  July 27, 2023
    News and Culture

    What John Milton’s Heaven Has to Offer the Soul—According to Ken Jennings

    By Ken Jennings  July 20, 2023
    Early Russian Literature

    How a 17th Century Priest Invented the Russian Novel

    On Old Believers, Faith and the Vernacular

    By Irina Zhorov  November 1, 2023
    Buddhism

    Literature in the Bardo: Tenzin Dickie on the Past, Present, and Future of the Tibetan Essay

    By Tenzin Dickie  June 26, 2023
    Keen On

    Peter Cave on the Scholars, Dreamers, and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live

    By Keen On  June 23, 2023
    Borders

    Borders and Rivers: On Language, Faith, and Family at the US/Mexico Border

    By Alejandra Oliva  June 22, 2023
    Philosophy

    On Learning How to Live From Ralph Waldo Emerson

    “Self-hating, dishonest, twisted stories diminish our lives and prevent us from knowing who we are.”

    By Mark Matousek  June 22, 2023
    Russian Literature

    The Master, Margarita, and I: Paul Goldberg on the Third Rail of the Russian Classic

    By Paul Goldberg  June 6, 2023
    The Cosmic Library

    An Introduction to Journey to the West, the 16th-Century Chinese Novel of Comic Mischief and Spirituality

    By The Cosmic Library   June 6, 2023
    Muslim women

    Mirrors Rarely Exist: Zara Raheem on Finding Muslim Women in Fiction

    By Zara Raheem  June 2, 2023
    European History

    Why the Idea of Western Civilization is More Myth Than History

    Naoíse Mac Sweeney on Writing a New History of the West

    By Naoíse Mac Sweeney  May 23, 2023
    Family Stories

    Time For a Change: Rachel Louise Snyder on the Beginning of the End of Her Family

    By Rachel Louise Snyder  May 23, 2023
    Catholicism

    Who Was the Only Sitting President to Contribute to a Literary Journal?

    By Nick Ripatrazone  May 10, 2023
    Keen On

    Neil Theise on Connection, Consciousness and Being

    By Keen On  May 9, 2023
    Cultural Criticism

    Viduy, or, Listening to Palestinians With My Mother

    Shalom Auslander Attends The Adelaide Writers' Festival

    By Shalom Auslander  May 8, 2023
    Meditation

    Missed Chances for Mindfulness: On Trying and Failing to Meditate

    By Zach Zimmerman  April 21, 2023
    Keen On

    Grant Lindsley on What He Learned in His Stumbling Search for Wisdom in a Thai Forest Monastery

    By Keen On  April 17, 2023
    Keen On

    Luma Mufleh on Reconciling Her Identity as a Gay Muslim Woman With an Arab-Turned-American Refugee

    By Keen On  June 29, 2023
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