Despite a growing awareness of the Divine Feminine, women remain ineligible to head many major religious groups and institutions […]
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Kuzunoha
Kuzunoha is a popular figure in Japanese folklore
Parabola Volume 41, No. 4, Winter 2016-2017: Generosity & Service
Parabola Volume 41, No. 4, Winter 2016-2017: Generosity & Service Jesus Christ said, “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Jesus, like Buddha, Muhammad, Moses, […]
The Tree of Life, An Interview with Wangari Maathai
An interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai
The Meaning of Tradition: A Conversation with Huston Smith
Parabola’s first issue, Winter 1976, included the magazine’s first interview. Conducted by then-editor John Loudon, it questioned religion scholar Huston Smith, author of the bestseller The Religions of Man, whom Loudon described as “a man who has traveled widely, but deeply, learning the many languages for what is primordially true.”
Two Stories, by Mullah Nasr Eddin
Mullah Nasr Eddin, or Hodja Nasr Eddin, is a legendary Turkish teller of tales, a sort of wise fool, to whom all sorts of exploits are attributed.
The Thanksgiving Prayer, Adapted from the Mohawk
Today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things. […]
Common Sense, An Interview with Peter Kingsley
Over 2,500 years ago, Peter Kingsley tells us, Parmenides and Empedocles laid the basic foundations for the world and culture we now live in.
The Middle Ground, by William Segal
There is a middle ground, a basic Reality embracing self and Self. It may be called my true nature. To discover what
prevents me from the experience of it, I have only to look at myself, just as I am. […]
Hands, by Robinson Jeffers
Inside a cave in a narrow canyon near Tassajara
The vault of rock is painted with hands,
A multitude of hands in the twilight, a cloud of men’s
palms, no more,
No other picture. […]