In 2004 I was hired to help edit the book 
What’s Right with Islam Is What’s Right with America by Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam and educator who is spearheading plans to construct a Muslim cultural center—not a mosque—two blocks away from the site of the World Trade Center.
As an editor, I am paid to get inside the heads of authors. And Imam Feisal was generous in letting me get inside his. Read More…
On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published his On the Origin of Species. I learned this from Bron Taylor during a reading from his new book, Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future, at the Boulder Book Store … Read More…
“There is no separate self,” say the Buddhists. Twenty-five years ago I couldn’t warm up to the idea. Of course selves are separate; that’s why I was putting so much individual work into building one. Separate self? It was repetitious, … Read More…
“I want people to hear the compassionate voice of religion,” says religion scholar Karen Armstrong. What, you say, religion and compassion in the same sentence? … Read More…