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The Greater Sin
Do Christians spend too much time focusing on their sins?
The Presence of God - Sufism
The story of Rabia, and the ecstatic Sufi poetry of Farid ud-Din
Poetry of Presence - Walt Whitman
Whitman's poetry describes nature and the self - but what of God?
The Presence of God - Mansur Al-Hallaj
The Persian mystic famous for his poetry, accusation of heresy and execution
The Presence of God - Kabir
The Indian poet-saint who likened God to sugar spilled in the sand
The Presence of God - the Koran
Reading the world as a kind of text, who wrote the script?
The Presence of God - the Poetry of Creation
The poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband Robert
Being Holy, Feeling Good
The threat to spiritual life from the modern need to 'feel' good
The Prophet Micah
A reminder that we have only one world and we must live on it together
The Presence of God - Kabir and Guru Nanak
The mystical poetry of Kabir, and Guru Nanak
The Jewish Torah
Jewish beliefs about creation and the roles of men and women
Why Me?
How faith, poetry, and friends, helped a man cope with redundancy
What is the United Nations For?
On the UN's 50th anniversary, a reminder of what it stand for
Peace in Northern Ireland
The necessity - and the difficulty - of forgiving those who have done great harm
Inspiring Islamic Women
From Khadija, Aisha, and Fatima to admirable Muslim women in the present
The Seeker and the Sought
Do people seek a religious path or does the path seek them?
Conflict Resolution
How can former enemies begin to trust each other?
God's Anger
The Torah story of Noah and Sodom and the concept of God's wrath
The Old Man and the Synagogue
The story of an elderly Arab man who looked after a synagogue for 19 years
The Memory of Remembrance
Is memory - especially of painful things - necessary for moral action?
Sufism and the Heart of Islam
The relationship between Sufism and the duties and obligations of Islam
The Letters of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's reflections on the nature of holiness
The Listening Heart
Amid growing technology, the value of reaching out, person to person, and listening
The Sinner-Smugglers
How the unlikeliest people convey the spirit of God
Changing Shirts
Rabbi Jonathan Magonet remembers an unassuming teacher
Looking Up
How can our cities be 'loved into wholeness'?
Devoted to Nature
Connecting with nature and respecting the Earth as part of daily devotion
God's Chosen Ones
Father Oliver McTernan describes feeling inadequate in the presence of God
A Muslim Trinity
How faith involves concepts of unity, duality or trinity.
A Choir of Angels
On the strange comfort given by A Choir of Angels, by 15th Century artist Simon Marmion
Destiny
Is there such a thing as destiny, or do we have free will?