A myth has been well described as something that in some sense happened once—but that also happens all the time. It is about timeless, universal truth. If
A double standard, albeit unintended, violates our integrity and damages our credibility. In a global society, conflict is rarely the fault of only one party.
We may need to find a way of posing Socratic questions that lead to personal insight rather than simply repeating the facts as we see them yet again. We
If we harm our neighbors, we also inflict damage on ourselves. There
Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs. fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates...
What seems wrong to you is right for himWhat is poison to one is honey to someone else.Purity and impurity, sloth and diligence in worship,These mean nothing to Me.I am apart from all that.Ways of wor...
Was not space itself somehow divine, possessing as it did the attributes of eternity and infinity? Was it a second divine entity, which had existed beside God from before the beginning of time? Newton...
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to l...
Thus had been born the absurd type of apologetics that attempt to prove the veracity of the Bible by finding a rational explanation for the various miracles and myths. Jesus’ feeding of the five thous...
The right to liberty was crucial: it is difficult to find a single reference to imprisonment in the whole of rabbinic literature, because only God can curtail the freedom of a human being. Spreading s...
The aim of this step is threefold: (1) to recognize and appreciate the unknown and unknowable, (2) to become sensitive to overconfident assertions of certainty in ourselves and other people, and (3) t...
The Crusades were disgraceful but formative events in Western history; they were devastating for the Muslims of the Near East, but for the vast majority of Muslims in Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, Malaya,...
Quraysh, who had shown throughout the day that they were still in thrall to the overbearing haughtiness and intransigence of the jahiliyyah, a stubborn resistance to anything that might injure their s...
Pascal's scientific achievements, therefore, did not give him much confidence in the human condition. When he contemplated the immensity of the universe, he was scared stiff:'When I see the blind and...
Het hoofdthema [van het verhaal van Kaïn En Abel] is het gevecht tussen eigenliefde en de liefde voor God. 'Kaïn' betekende 'bezit'. Kaïn wilde alles voor zichzelf houden en streefde enkel zijn eigenb...
După cum a explicat Grigorie de Nyssa în Comentariu la Cântarea Cântărilor fiecare concept pe care mintea îl înţelege este o piedică în calea celor care caută. Ţelul contemplatorului era să meargă din...
But the state had no jurisdiction over the conscience of the individual and no right, therefore, to fight heresy or lead a holy war. While it could have nothing to do with the spiritual realm, the sta...
But Christina never forgot that when I was a child, I needed only one person to understand my suffering and pain.… One is very important.5
As an inspiration for terrorism, however, nationalism has been far more productive than religion. Terrorism experts agree that the denial of a people’s right to national self-determination and the occ...
All religious people in any age have to make their traditions address the challenge of their particular modernity,