I prayed to a mystery.Sometimes I was simply aware of the mystery. I saw a flash of it during a trip to New York that David and I took before we were married. We were...

I prayed to what all things hold in common. I prayed to what makes life. I thought about the elements of the universe, the rocks, the stars, the air, other living things. I tried to...

In my return to church, I had learned the hard way to avoid assumptions about other people’s faith. For one thing, people kept surprising me. If I listened carefully to them, my conjectures about what...