Many wonder how faith molds our minds and emotions, revealing surprising psychological effects that influence resilience and well-being in unexpected ways.
You start a charity because you witnessed suffering your faith compels you to address. Five years later, you have a board of directors, a nonprofit tax status, a social media strategy, and a $500K annual budget. You are also managing staff conflict, negotiating with donors whose values drift from yours, and spending more time on […]
When you search for the “meaning” of suffering, you often find what you need to find. Faith offers a narrative that transforms randomness into purpose, chaos into divine instruction. But it is also potentially dangerous. The question is not whether faith helps—sometimes it does. The question is: When does meaning-making serve genuine adaptation, and when […]
When you search for the “meaning” of a religious symbol, you assume you are discovering something hidden. You imagine that beneath the obvious interpretation lies a deeper truth—accessible only to those who study carefully enough. This assumption feels natural. But it is not. It is historically specific, born in 18th-century Europe, and it has fundamentally […]
When we speak of inspiring figures in history, we are not simply recounting factual events. We are engaged in an act of collective mythology—a process through which complex, contradictory human beings are flattened into archetypal symbols that serve specific cultural functions. This distinction matters profoundly. The Gandhi we celebrate is not the man who harbored […]