Christianity commands love, including love of enemies, and forgiveness without limit. Then it says none of this can be done by effort alone. From the Good Samaritan to a Charleston courtroom, an essay on a command that follows a gift
In 1943 a Muslim family in the Albanian mountains hid a Jewish family from the German army, and the whole neighbourhood knew. The code they kept took no interest in what they felt. Judaism and Islam build kindness the same way: as a debt, owed before it is felt, and tested at its edge.
To understand Accra’s ecological metabolism is to trace the flow of water, air, and humanity through a rapidly shifting coastal topography. Positioned on the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana’s capital is a delta city grappling with the intersecting forces of breakneck urbanisation, compound flooding, and a warming equatorial climate.
Adelaide is the driest capital city in the driest inhabited continent on Earth, and it has known this about itself for long enough to have developed some genuinely instructive responses. Its investment in recycled water infrastructure, its early and serious engagement with urban heat as a public health emergency, and its stewardship of one of the great metropolitan parkland systems in the Southern Hemisphere all represent hard-won lessons rather than inherited advantages. Whether those lessons are being applied at the speed and scale that a warming Mediterranean climate demands is a more complicated question — and one the city is still in the process of honestly answering
This piece is by way of tribute to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. I was privileged to meet him in the mid-1990s when I was National Campaign Director of the Australian Wilderness Society and we convened a conference on Tibetan Wilderness (an idea conceived by activist Chris Doran) held in Sydney, Australia. It was a honor to speak on the same platform as this extraordinary human being who exemplifies compassion and consistency of purpose. This extended article looks back on his life, philosophies and his ongoing contribution to advancing peace, compassion and kindness as a mantra for everyday living.
Overview and Historical Context
Drunvalo Melchizedek (born Bernard Perona, 1941) emerged as a pivotal figure in the New Age movement during the late 20th century,...
Introduction
Sufism, often described as the mystical dimension of Islam, represents one of the world's most profound spiritual traditions. Far from being merely an esoteric...
I have long had a fascination with the concept of reincarnation and past lives reinforced by exploration via my shamanic training and other exploratory...