Religion is often blamed for human action that usually has very little to do with religion.

Introspection is key.

Things can always be improved if human beings make different decisions.

If you believe in one God, that means he created everyone.

Mogahed is a translator between two cultures in conflict.

A blend of the Western and the Middle Eastern.

The search for absolute truths led to the carnage of the 20th century.

Newsweek’s Jon Meacham calls the American experiment an exercise in optimism.

Literalism is a refuge for those who are fearful.

Kula seeks to provide aid on three levels: local, and national, and international, from the most personal, case-driven, non-systemic individual person with pain to the largest systemic institution.

Shashi Tharoor talks about how we see ourselves as a global citizens and how Americans are challenged in this regard.

Tharoor grew up with a pan-Indian sensibility despite the many places he has called home.

Tharoor would like to talk to an Indian farmer about to commit suicide.

Shashi Tharoor suggests spending more time getting to know the world.

What Democrats and Republicans don’t get.

We’re never as strong as we think.

Since technology is often ahead of consciousness, society manages to create weapons that are a serious detriment to our well-being. The deepest, most fundamental, spiritual insight is that we are […]

The measure of a good life is the cultivation of compassion as well as a deeper understanding of the self.

People must understand that they are neither as powerful as their fantasies, nor as powerless as their nightmares. There is a necessity to practice compassion, which flows outward, in a […]

Bono and Alfredo Barraza.

As an age of paradoxes.

This country has a terribly hard time saying that we were wrong and that we made a mistake.

How the United States will cope with China’s rising prominence.

The long shadow of the Holocaust.

Harbison sees some hopeful signs.

Harbison can read the King James Bible over and over.

Unfortunately right now religion is being used to legitimate people’s group and political identities rather than actually destabilizing all identities so that new relationships can be developed across every possible […]

We have a tremendous attraction to intolerance bred into the early life of this country, Harbison says.

Harbison cultivates his self-confidence.

From his traditional Jewish parents, Kula learned that throughout any practice and ritual in any religious system or any theory about living, there must be people who can produce food. […]