
Islam on Creation, the Sacred Cosmos and the Ground of Being
The Qur’an offers respect to God as Creator and calls humans to our responsibility for creation. We read: O mankind, worship your Lord who has
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The Qur’an offers respect to God as Creator and calls humans to our responsibility for creation. We read: O mankind, worship your Lord who has

Our cosmic awareness and cosmic experiences produce effects. Gaston Bachelard tells us there follows a new level of self-appreciation and gratitude for being here. Awe

Thomas Merton’s book on Ishi: A Meditation begins with the following stark words: Genocide is a new word. Perhaps the word is new because technology

We meditated yesterday on what Otto Rank, recognized as the “father of humanistic psychology” who died young in 1939, had to say about the loss

Let us this July 4th look for medicine that can heal our ailing species that is busy threatening itself and other beings on our planet

Eddie Kneebone (1947-2005) was an aboriginal indigenous leader who taught with us when we sponsored a one-week Creation Spirituality workshop in Melbourne in 1990. At

There is much in the news these days—as well there should be—not only about slavery and atrocities committed against black humans and on the response

In yesterday’s DM, we saw how many indigenous peoples talk about the “loneliness” they now feel on the earth. Loneliness happens when humans separate from

True spirituality begins where the Bible begins—with the universe, with creation, with all that exists. Not with the human alone but within a larger context.

Unlike modern European philosophers, says Dr. Marimba Ani, the African world view is not ill at ease with the concept of “soul.” Indeed, …soul is
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