Chhath Puja is more than a festival; it is a spiritual journey that connects humans with nature and the divine. Offering ...

Music can heal, if life is put into it.” Those are the words of a holy man named Inayat Khan, plucked from his treatise, The ...

Water holds a special place in spiritual traditions around the world. For centuries, people have used showers, baths, and ...

Do you hear the birds calling?” asks Noraeri Thungmueangthong, as the vibrant trill of a blue-throated barbet rings through ...

Congregations that speak with courage and clarity can help ensure clean water, clean air and healthy ecosystems for all ...

Nature confirms the lesson. The oak in my yard drops leaves each fall. It doesn’t deliberate or cling. The leaves fed the ...

A new biography of Peter Matthiessen chronicles his many paradoxical attempts to escape who the world expected him to be.

Off the western coast of Sumatra, the Mentawai Islands rise from the Indian Ocean in a patchwork of emerald forests and ...

She reminded us that 'sacred' is best defined not by doctrine but the living planet we call earth, and that the true test of ...

He was a spy, a crusader, an obsessive advocate for neglected people and places—yet his work was shaped, too, by an inner ...

A year after his mother's death, the author reflects on the ongoing nature of grief. The author describes the experience as being in a tunnel with no clear end in sight.

The game of golf, writes Pierre Eau Claire, contains three elements of spirituality: humility, hope and humor.