A pop-up restaurant in Kabul is run by women for women. The Taliban are watching

By the side of a busy road in Northwestern Kabul, the savory smell of bolani, traditional vegetable-stuffed flatbread, wafts out of a cloth-walled, temporary building. Inside, a woman in a hijab and a white apron is starting to clean up the balloons, ribbons and empty...

Experiencing Your Divinity

Steve Farrell* • Jun 07, 2023 In a world that often feels chaotic and uncertain, it’s easy to lose sight of our inherent divinity. Yet, within each of us lies a spark of something greater, something sacred that connects us to the divine. Experiencing your divinity is...

The Karma Yoga of Blessing

Karma Yoga is a spiritual teaching found in the Bhagavad Gita, one of the holy scriptures of Hinduism. It recommends a complete detachment of the self from our action – a concept that has also been expressed by other spiritual writers, for example Isaiah’s statement...

Finding Happiness

A beautiful woman in an expensive dress came to her psychiatrist, saying that she was depressed, and her life was meaningless. ‘I’m going to ask Mary here to tell you how she found happiness. All I want you to do is listen to her.’ The psychiatrist...

The Spirituality of Letting Go

Fr Richard Rohr, Center for Action and Contemplation God* asks only that you get out of God’s way and let God be God in you. – Meister Eckhart, sermon on 1 John 4:9    Father Richard describes the spiritual discipline of detachment as the practice of...