We had recently had our first rain of the year, after months of no rain. Being new to California, we didn't realize what that first rain did to dirt roads in the mountains.

Molly was 88 years old and in good health. She had outlived two husbands, her siblings, most of her friends and her only son.

We need dreams and attention to them. When it is not available through established religious or civic ritual, people will seek it in other forms.

I have used these keys for many years in my classes. I offer them to you to facilitate your spiritual journey.

Paraphrasing poet Gary Snyder, meditation is a process of entering into our deep identity over and over again, until it becomes the identity from which we live.

A lot of Easter traditions – including hot cross buns and lamb on Sunday – stem from medieval Christian or even earlier pagan beliefs. The chocolate Easter egg, however, is a more modern twist on tradition.

The Dances of Universal Peace are participatory body prayer, not performance art.

For many Muslims breaking fast in mosques around the world this Ramadan, something will be missing: plastics.

On April 5, 2023, Jewish families and their friends will be celebrating the first night of the week of Passover, with the most convivial gathering of the year: the Seder meal.

 American professor Jon Kabat-Zinn is credited with popularizing the kind of mindfulness that has caught on with non-Buddhists today, starting with his “mindfulness-based stress reduction” program in the 1970s.

People have over the years urged us to remove this tree, fearing the possibility that it might fall on our house. This particular giant was clearly leaning away from our buildings.

Athletes at the very highest level of their sport face the challenge of performing consistently under pressure amid many potential distractions, including performance anxiety, crowd behavior, their own and others’ expectations, and the responses of their opponents.

From Wagner to William Morris in the late 19th century, via Tolkien’s dwarves and CS Lewis’s The Last Battle, through to last year’s controversial film The Northman, Scandinavian gods and heroes have been central to the stories we tell ourselves.

Metaphysics teaches that you don't go to Heaven just because you have been a good person; you grow to Heaven through the gradual, majestic process of spiritual evolution.

“Jesus Christ was a sportsman.” Or so claimed a preacher at one of the regular sporting services that were held throughout the first half of the 20th century in Protestant churches all over Britain.

It isn’t just artists and teachers who are losing sleep over advances in automation and artificial intelligence. Robots are being brought into Hinduism’s holiest rituals – and not all worshippers are happy about it.

Hearing that piece of music takes you right back to where you were, who you were with and the feelings associated with that memory.

At a certain point, "readers of the Old French version of Genesis understood the statement 'Adam and Eve ate a pom' to mean 'Adam and Eve ate an apple,'" explains Azzan Yadin-Israel.

What does the Bible say about homosexuality? For starters, Jesus wasn’t a homophobe

To make our state of mind more important than what we are doing is to walk a spiritual path. That’s pretty basic. But it all becomes a little more complicated...

Yoga is now a mainstream activity in the U.S. and is commonly portrayed as a healthy lifestyle choice. I am a behavioral scientist who researches how physical activity – and specifically yoga – can prevent and help manage chronic diseases.

Many people look to diet trends or new exercise regimens – often with questionable benefit – to get a healthier start on the new year. But there is one strategy that’s been shown time and again to boost both mood and health: meditation.

I am inspired to share helpful techniques from my own tradition to add to this emerging global mindfulness conversation.