What role does wonder and mystery play in your life? Read more »

The theme of this issue is mystery, which is defined as something difficult to figure out. Read more »

The theme of this issue is mystery, which is defined as something difficult to figure out. Read more »

One of the best ways I know to get things moving when I’m facing significant change is to engage my imagination. Read more »

When I was in college, a professor began the term by assigning a novel set in a dystopian future, where everything was grim and hope was absent. Read more »

“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.” —Elie Wiesel

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”—Socrates

“God has no religion.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“All peoples are members of the same body, created from one essence. ” —Saadi

“The winds of grace are always blowing but you have to raise the sail.”—Ramakrishna

For many of us, it proves impossible to limit religious thought to a narrow creed. The more we learn, the more difficult it becomes to restrict ourselves to the definition of ultimate reality, or God, that we grew up with, or held when we were young. Read more »

I wrote this prayer sitting in a military chapel in Afghanistan. The prayer was inspired by my encounter with a service-member I met. Read more »

Well-meaning people explain that it doesn’t matter what religion I choose, but I must choose, and only one. Only then, they say, can I go truly deep into a religion. Read more »