You can disagree with another person’s opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can’t disagree with their experience.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to...

…’fundamentalism’ and ‘liberalism’ and terrorism.’ These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware of the limitations of our own vision and of our own capacity for...

The spiritual energy of our time, as I’ve come to understand it, is not a rejection of the rational disciplines by which we’ve ordered our common life for many decades – law, politics, economics, science....