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Why Is Amida Male?

by Johann Nilsson in Volume 53 Featured — December, 2025

An explanation of male-female symbolism in Shin Buddhism illustrates the dangers of viewing traditional symbols in religion through the lens of gender politics.

Jonas’ Two Initiations

by Victor F. Bruno Featured — December, 2025

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Meaning Amidst Chaos: Navigating the Post-Human Era

by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos Featured — December, 2025

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Muslims/Islam/Salam: A Contemporary Semantics for Universal Peace

by Rusmir Mahmutćehajić Featured — December, 2025

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“Who will Rule, God or Man?” - Politics and the Sacred

by M. Ali Lakhani Featured — December, 2025

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by Charles Upton in Poetry Aug 21, 2025 — 4 min read

A Poem by Charles Upton, after Jalaluddin Rumi What is this sorrow grips me like the night? Is it blind? Does it see me lost to light? Earth shows my image, yet in heaven I'm free: What hand can lift a star from off the sea? Who claims...

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware (1934-2022): A Sketch by Harry Oldmeadow

by Harry Oldmeadow in Tributes Aug 12, 2025 — 13 min read

We are on a journey through the inward space of the heart, a journey not measured by the hours of our watch or the days of the calendar, for it is a journey out of time into eternity.[[1]][[2]] Timothy Ware was born in Bath in 1934 and raised...