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Richard Smoley

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Richard Smoley is a consulting editor to Parabola. His latest book, How God Became God: What Scholars Are Really Saying about God and the Bible, was reviewed in Parabola, Summer 2016.

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Love and Money, by Richard Smoley

Love and Money, by Richard Smoley

January 10, 2018By Richard Smoley

The secret prices of love

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the Spring 2019 issue

In his heralded poem “Burnt Norton,” T.S. Eliot speaks of “The still point of the turning world,” a near perfect expression of Change and the Changeless. Eliot attended lectures in 1920s London by the Russian philosopher P.D. Ouspensky, featured in this Spring 2019 issue of Parabola; no surprise as the search for that still point is a perennial spiritual quest, one that has inspired seekers from the Buddha to Thoreau, Thomas Merton, and countless others including G.I. Gurdjieff, Ouspensky’s own teacher. Read more>

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Summer 2019
The Wild
Editorial Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2019

Fall 2019
Mercy and Forgiveness
Editorial Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2019

Winter 2019-2020
Abundance
Editorial Submission Deadline: September 1st, 2019

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“The true feminine is the receptacle of love. The true masculine is the spirit that goes into the eternal unknown in search of meaning. The great container, the Self, is paradoxically both male and female […]

Hearing the Cries of the World, by Mark Nepo

Hearing the Cries of the World, by Mark Nepo

This story is so old we don’t know who told it or who it’s about, except that it speaks to all of us. We no longer know if it was a “he” or “she” at the center of the story. […]

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The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, by Cynthia Bourgeault

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