Meaning

Many people think religion is a collection of beliefs about God, the soul and the afterlife. This view of religion drains all the life out…

We search for peace as if it were the highest goal. We try to remove suffering and agitation, hoping to find a state of satisfied…

Few doctrines have done more to diminish faith in a loving God than the idea some people will suffer eternally with no hope of redemption.…

When some people hear that God is love, it arouses the image of a benign old gentleman. An inoffensive chap who is insipidly polite and…

The problem of evil is often called the rock of atheism. This describes its enduring power to cast doubt on the existence of a loving…

The doctrine of karma is sometimes interpreted as a system of cosmic justice. God as judge, enforcing his laws through reward and punishment. Suffering is…

Human beings need a worldview to function. A worldview isn’t a single belief or even a collection of beliefs. It’s the widest possible view we…

Faith is sometimes described as belief without evidence. Non-believers promote this idea, but many believers also say this is the substance of faith. If we…

Vedanta has been called the science of spirituality. It’s one of the six schools of Indian philosophy and takes its inspiration from the literature of…

The question of why there is something rather than nothing is the most fundamental of all questions. This is not the question of why some…