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John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
Nikki Giovanni — Soul Food, Sex, and Space
Ruby Sales — Where Does It Hurt?
Cloud Cult — Music Is Medicine
Mary Catherine Bateson — Composing A Life
danah boyd — The Internet of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Matthieu Ricard — Happiness as Human Flourishing
Amichai Lau-Lavie — First Aid For Spiritual Seekers
Billy Mills, Christina Torres, Ashley Hicks, et al. — Running as Spiritual Practice
Annette Gordon-Reed and Titus Kaphar — Are We Actually Citizens Here?
Martin Sheen — Spirituality of Imagination
Enrique Martínez Celaya — The Whisper of the Order of Things
Hari Kondabolu, Lindy West, et al. — Humor as a Tool for Survival
Brian Greene — Reimagining the Cosmos
Patrisse Cullors and Robert Ross — The Spiritual Work of Black Lives Matter
Lyndsey Stonebridge — Thinking and Friendship in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt for Now
Glenn Beck — What You Do Will Be a Pivot Point
Marie Howe — The Power of Words to Save Us
Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant — Resilience After Unimaginable Loss
Helen Fisher — This Is Your Brain on Sex
Richard Rohr — Living In Deep Time
Heather McGhee and Matt Kibbe — Repairing the Breach
Joy Ladin — Transgender Amid Orthodoxy: I Am Who I Will Be
Bessel van der Kolk — How Trauma Lodges in the Body
Pádraig Ó Tuama — Belonging Creates and Undoes Us Both
Marilyn Nelson — Communal Pondering in a Noisy World
Margaret Wertheim — The Grandeur and Limits of Science
Chuck Colson, Greg Boyd, Shane Claiborne — How To Be a Christian Citizen: Three Evangelicals Debate
John Lewis — Love In Action
Eula Biss — Let’s Talk About Whiteness
Anil Dash — Tech’s Moral Reckoning
Gordon Hempton — Silence and the Presence of Everything
Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman — Meeting Our Enemies and Our Suffering
Alice Parker — Singing Is the Most Companionable of Arts
James Martin — Finding God in All Things
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn — Truth, Beauty, Banjo
Vincent Harding — Is America Possible?
Natasha Trethewey and Eboo Patel — How to Live Beyond This Election
David Brooks and E.J. Dionne — Sinfulness, Hopefulness, and the Possibility of Politics
Leonard Mlodinow — Randomness and Choice
Alain de Botton — A School of Life for Atheists
Parker Palmer and Courtney Martin — The Inner Life of Rebellion
Ruby Sales — Where Does It Hurt?
Jimmy Wales — The Sum of All Human Knowledge
Gustavo Santaolalla — How Movie Music Moves Us
Billy Mills, Christina Torres, Ashley Hicks, et al. — Running as Spiritual Practice
Paulo Coelho — The Alchemy of Pilgrimage
Xavier Le Pichon — The Fragility at the Heart of Humanity
Thich Nhat Hanh, Cheri Maples, and Larry Ward — Being Peace in a World of Trauma
Joe Henry — The Mystery and Adventure of Life and Songwriting
Pauline Boss — The Myth of Closure
Samar Jarrah, Wajahat Ali, Sahar Ullah, et al. — Revealing Ramadan
Jonathan Haidt + Melvin Konner — Capitalism and Moral Evolution: A Civil Provocation
Kevin Kling — The Losses and Laughter We Grow Into
David Isay — Listening as an Act of Love
Krista Tippett — An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Frank Wilczek — Why Is the World So Beautiful?
Michelle Alexander — Who We Want to Become: Beyond the New Jim Crow
Craig Minowa — Music and the Ritual of Performance
David Whyte — The Conversational Nature of Reality
Tiffany Shlain — Growing Up the Internet
Nathan Schneider — The Wisdom of Millennials
Nikki Giovanni — Soul Food, Sex, and Space
Jean Berko Gleason — Unfolding Language, Unfolding Life
B.J. Miller — Reframing Our Relationship to That We Don't Control
Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Alexander, and Arnold Rampersad — W.E.B. Du Bois & the American Soul
Carrie Newcomer — A Conversation with Music
Paul Muldoon — A Conversation with Verse
Martin Sheen — Spirituality of Imagination
Jennifer Michael Hecht — Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves
Penny George, Mark Hyman, and James Gordon — The Evolution of Medicine
Ann Hamilton — Making, and the Spaces We Share
Jonathan Sacks — The Dignity of Difference
Adam Grant — Successful Givers, Toxic Takers, and the Life We Spend at Work
Nancy Cantor and Christopher Howard — Beyond the Ivory Tower
Mary Catherine Bateson — Composing a Life
Guy Consolmagno and George Coyne — Asteroids, Stars, and the Love of God
Louis Newman — The Refreshing Practice of Repentance
Mike Rose — The Intelligence in All Kinds of Work, and the Human Core of All Education That Matters
Grace Lee Boggs — A Century in the World
Rex Jung — Creativity And The Everyday Brain
Katy Payne — In the Presence of Elephants and Whales
John O'Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
Elizabeth Alexander — Words That Shimmer
Rami Nashashibi — A New Coming Together
john a. powell — Opening the Question of Race to the Question of Belonging
Mario Livio — Mysteries of an Expanding Universe
Simone Campbell — How to be Spiritually Bold
Pico Iyer — The Art of Stillness
Jean Vanier — The Wisdom of Tenderness
Jane Gross — The Far Shore of Aging
Mohammed Fairouz — The World in Counterpoint
David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch — The Future of Marriage
danah boyd — Online Reflections of Our Offline Lives
Bruce Kramer — Forgiving the Body: Life with ALS
Alan Dienstag — Alzheimer's and the Spiritual Terrain of Memory
Arthur Zajonc and Michael McCullough — Mind And Morality: A Dialogue
Eve Ensler — The Body After Cancer
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons and Lucas Johnson — The Movement, Remembered Forward
Brené Brown — The Courage to Be Vulnerable