How Yoga Carries Its Own Legacies of Violence

How Yoga Carries Its Own Legacies of Violence

Fariha Róisín on Understanding Caste Supremacy and Teaching Yoga in the West

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Memories of the Pogroms: Understanding History Through Family Stories

Memories of the Pogroms: Understanding History Through Family Stories

Lisa Brahin on What She Learned From Her Grandmother

By Lisa Brahin | June 13, 2022

Can we please make Banned Book Fairs the hot new nationwide trend?

Can we please make Banned Book Fairs the hot new nationwide trend?

By Jonny Diamond | June 10, 2022

Hiding My Sexuality to Preserve My Life in the Nigerian Church

Hiding My Sexuality to Preserve My Life in the Nigerian Church

Edafe Okporo on Coming to Terms with Being a Gay Christian

By Edafe Okporo | June 10, 2022

Buddhism’s <em>Dukkha</em> and Hamlet’s Dust: On Shakespeare’s Spiritual Wisdom

Buddhism’s Dukkha and Hamlet’s Dust: On Shakespeare’s Spiritual Wisdom

Lauren Shufran on How Reading Shakespeare Helped Her Better Read Herself

By Lauren Shufran | May 25, 2022

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

“To many in the Western world, the fact that the mind was free but separate from the heavenly soul was unbearable.”

By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary | May 18, 2022

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Sara Baume on the Uncanny Feeling of Discovering a Book with the Same Title as Her Own

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Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History

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How the Transcendentalists Shaped American Art, Philosophy and Spirituality

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Dominic Green on the Legacies of Whitman, Thoreau, Tyndale, and More

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Rules, Rituals, and Laws of Emotion in the Hebrew Bible

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The Bardo of Widowhood: Considering Kathryn Davis’s Meditations on Grief

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Howard Norman Reads Aurelia, Aurélia

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