These are trying times. A global recession sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, and widespread civil unrest, have created a combustible mix of angst—stressors that heighten the risk for long-term ...

One of the greatest twists in the recent history of nonfiction came at the end of Sam Harris’s The End of Faith (2004). The book gave physical form to the message-board atheism of the early internet ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Here is some sad news, courtesy of the Pew ...

In Buddhist Biology, David Barash highlights parallels between these empirical systems of thought, and suggests that together they can show us how to live AT FIRST glance, Buddhism and science seem ...

Early in Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, a clown named Trinculo takes shelter from the storm in a most unappealing place: Under the monster, Caliban, explaining that “misery acquaints a man with ...

How did the Universe arise? There are two main avenues to answer that existential question: science or religion. Cosmological evidence, gleaned from gazing far out into space (and thus back in time), ...

(RNS) — Buddhism is an American religious tradition that intersects meaningfully with African American religious history, ...

In this essay, I explore what happens to the Buddhist-Christian dialogue when another party is introduced into the conversation, in this case, the sciences. My question concerns how the interface ...

As a child, what did you want to do when you grew up? I think I wanted to travel the world. When I was about 5, I ran away from home but only made it to the end of the street, where my mother found me ...