When a blind-deaf visionary learned that poor people were more likely to be blind than others, she set off down a...

Can there ever be a truly successful, secular revolution?

We found changes in regions associated with empathy, emotion regulation and reward processing.

Cultural crises are opportunities to change the direction of society in fundamental ways.

Why do Westerners go to extremes in following Eastern spiritual paths?

The memory of martyrs is exalted, but to what purpose?

The ‘poetic genius’ inside of everyone creates a springboard for self-inquiry and social struggle.

Discovering a Jewish history that's about more than oppression and genocide.

Have faith in each other. It will be richly rewarded. True democracy cannot be built on anything else.

Pious protestations about Islam do nothing to further our understanding of the complex relationships between...

Compassion isn’t the property of Labour or the Conservatives, but when both parties embrace it does it mean anything at all?

Some things are beyond measure and beyond price. No amount of money is enough to compensate for the loss of the sacred.

Placing the emphasis on human experience opens the door to a more life-affirming role for religion.

If unhappiness is the human condition, what's the point of mindfulness?

Gender equality should not be pitted against religious freedom, so what kind of political arrangements could...

“In a racially unjust world,” revolutionary activist Angela Davis asked mindfulness popularizer Jon Kabat-Zinn,...

When peace and violence are examined through a faith-based lens, a different set of factors come to the foreground.

The people of Sarayaku are a leading force in 21st century indigenous resistance, engaging the western world...

True religion is living a life of compassion in the midst of the material world.

If Islam needs to be seen through the eyes of the West in order to make sense of itself, how can it find the space...