“It can be hard for a believer to be happy in the face of all that is going on in the world today,” writes Jean Vanier, a Canadian philosopher, humanitarian, and founder of L’Arche, a Christian community in which people with severe... Read More

“I wanted to love my neighbor, but I didn’t know how,” writes Amy Lively. As a Christian called to follow Jesus’s directive to “love your neighbor as yourself,” she felt guilty that she, like so many of us, didn’t even know... Read More

William Victor Blacoe follows Paul’s life from childhood to his execution in his sixth decade, placing it within the wider cultural, political, and religious context of his time—an era not unlike our own, marked by clashing cultures... Read More

Rev. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, PhD, is a Soto Zen priest and guiding teacher at Still Breathing Meditation Center in East Oakland, California. The author of Tell Me Something about Buddhism and contributing author to several books including... Read More

With that first breath of God into the dust of the earth, we have been “tied tight, held, commingled with the sand and the stars,” writes Tara M. Owens. “And we’ve been running from this awareness ever since, not wanting to admit... Read More

Suzanne Zuercher, a Benedictine nun, was awakened one night with these words in her mind: It is impossible for the human heart to be opened from outside; and then someone comes along and does just that. These words provided the impetus... Read More

Countering the voices, inner and outer, that demand women’s silence, fiction writers imagine new possibilities into being. The works of a substantial number of Western women writers reveal a major theme: the journey of the... Read More

Examining the history, function, and impact of paper on society, Müller reveals how the age of books and the age of the Internet are connected, not in opposition. Lothar Müller’s "White Magic" presents the evolution of paper from its... Read More