"Just because I take everything in my stride, smile through everything, doesn’t mean I don’t feel pain, loss or get hurt, it just means that every day I make a choice to transcend the negative and use every moment there is breath in this ...

“The seeds of peace come from the ground.”

“You don’t begin by going to library. Theology begins on the street. Go to understand what Scripture and tradition have to say about those questions [on the street], and new quest...

On a chilly morning in November, 2013, Deborah Cohan, MD, a clinical professor and program director at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, walked into an operating suite, her curly hair tucked under a cap, not to perform su...

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In 1985, when Prof. Anil Gupta was invited by the Bangladeshi government to help restructure their agricul...

As a surgeon based in eastern Nebraska, Demetrio Aguila, MD, has drawn patients from 34 states, 6 countries, and 4 continents, not only because of his innovative, life-changing surgeries for people suffering with chronic pain, but because of the comp...

Born in Chennai to Mrs. Visalakshi and Mr. Narayanaswamy into a musical and dance family, Bindhumalini has at once been embracing tradition and playing with its boundaries.

She imbibed Carnatic music from the family, especially her grandmother See...

As a 12-year-old Croatian-American girl in the anti-Soviet climate of the 1960s, Marilyn Turkovich boldly subscribed to the magazine ‘Soviet Life’ without her parents’ knowledge. Postal deliveries weren’t covered in brown pape...

“We all need a reason to wake up,” says Dr. Miller. “For me, it just took 11,000 volts.”

BJ Miller, MD, is a public figure and palliative care physician who has brought a singular presence — often described by his...

Vinod Sreedhar is a Goa-based social entrepreneur and environmental educator working in the realm of Systems Thinking.

In 1996, he decided to walk out of college -- he was studying Commerce in Bombay -- and started composing and producing music fo...

“Unlike Greek, Aramaic presents a fluid and holistic view of the cosmos. The arbitrary borders found in Greek between ‘mind,’ ‘body,’ and ‘spirit’ fall away.” —Neil Douglas-Klotz, Prayers of ...