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Sukkot - Judaism

Why Jewish families build an open air structure in which to live

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Busyness

Could busyness stop us being aware of God?

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The Greater Sin

Do Christians spend too much time focusing on their sins?

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The Presence of God - Sufism

The story of Rabia, and the ecstatic Sufi poetry of Farid ud-Din

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Poetry of Presence - Walt Whitman

Whitman's poetry describes nature and the self - but what of God?

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The Presence of God - Mansur Al-Hallaj

The Persian mystic famous for his poetry, accusation of heresy and execution

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The Presence of God - Kabir

The Indian poet-saint who likened God to sugar spilled in the sand

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The Presence of God - the Koran

Reading the world as a kind of text, who wrote the script?

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The Presence of God - the Poetry of Creation

The poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband Robert

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Being Holy, Feeling Good

The threat to spiritual life from the modern need to 'feel' good

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The Prophet Micah

A reminder that we have only one world and we must live on it together

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The Presence of God - Kabir and Guru Nanak

The mystical poetry of Kabir, and Guru Nanak

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The Jewish Torah

Jewish beliefs about creation and the roles of men and women

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Why Me?

How faith, poetry, and friends, helped a man cope with redundancy

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What is the United Nations For?

On the UN's 50th anniversary, a reminder of what it stand for

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Peace in Northern Ireland

The necessity - and the difficulty - of forgiving those who have done great harm

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Inspiring Islamic Women

From Khadija, Aisha, and Fatima to admirable Muslim women in the present

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The Seeker and the Sought

Do people seek a religious path or does the path seek them?

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Conflict Resolution

How can former enemies begin to trust each other?

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God's Anger

The Torah story of Noah and Sodom and the concept of God's wrath

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The Old Man and the Synagogue

The story of an elderly Arab man who looked after a synagogue for 19 years

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The Memory of Remembrance

Is memory - especially of painful things - necessary for moral action?

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Sufism and the Heart of Islam

The relationship between Sufism and the duties and obligations of Islam

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The Letters of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's reflections on the nature of holiness

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The Listening Heart

Amid growing technology, the value of reaching out, person to person, and listening

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The Sinner-Smugglers

How the unlikeliest people convey the spirit of God

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Changing Shirts

Rabbi Jonathan Magonet remembers an unassuming teacher

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Looking Up

How can our cities be 'loved into wholeness'?

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Devoted to Nature

Connecting with nature and respecting the Earth as part of daily devotion

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God's Chosen Ones

Father Oliver McTernan describes feeling inadequate in the presence of God

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