Most religions teach people to help those in need. But what happens when that mandate clashes with how the government views the law? After federal prosecutors cracked down on volunteers providing aid on the border, Scott Warren faced decades in prison for following his conscience.
Sacred Steps: A Buddhist Lay Minister Asks ‘What Is A Good Death?’
In the latest installment of Sacred Action from KALW’s The Spiritual Edge, we meet a Buddhist lay minister who runs a small green burial cemetery in Western North Carolina.
Interview: UC San Francisco doctor seeks to heal medicine’s mind-body split
SUDHA PRATHIKANTI: We no longer have to have this argument about “is it in the domain of the physical or is it in the domain of the psychological?
Interview: A San Francisco author’s surf toward enlightenment
JAIMAL YOGIS: I’ve always loved that little theater where you can experiment with fear and hopefully take it back on land.
Some, Done, or None: To be Muslim in the U.S.
The Spiritual Edge has been putting together a series of profiles about how people do — and do not — practice their religious beliefs. Ahmad Rashid Salim is Muslim and a prayer leader at the Islamic Cultural Center in Oakland.
Interview: He broke with his Buddhist tradition to meditate, Rev. Koshin Ogui
Reverend Koshin Ogui is a rebel. He’s dedicated to the Buddhist school in which he is ordained. But in the 1970s, he broke with tradition to begin teaching meditation. Meditation, while commonly
This Sudanese American life
Spiritual Edge contributor Hana Baba remembers what it was like to grow up black, African and Muslim in this piece published in Patheos. My parents must have felt this
Turning the tables on church homophobia: an interview with Pastor Yvette Flunder
At the Pentecostal Church where Yvette Flunder grew up in, she recalls pastors and church leaders who were tender and kind and understanding. That is, until one topic came up — that of homosexuality.
