For inmate Gary Shepherd, a new kind of spiritual wisdom emerged once he started to study evolution. It’s made him what he calls an “evolutionary.”
Abused by a Catholic priest, this man turned back to faith for forgiveness
Though angry at the Catholic church after suffering abuse by one of its priests, Michael Prats wasn’t ready to leave his faith.
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.
