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AROUND THIS TIME each year, I fly southeast from my home in Massachusetts to roam the gentle green hills of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa.

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Peace in a shared homeland

From the soil of the Mideast have sprung three of the world's great peace-teaching religious traditions. And yet war in the region has been the norm for centuries. Read about the moment of inspiration that led an American traveler to the conviction that peace is nevertheless inevitable.
Calvin DeLano is United States citizen who has lived in Israel since 1982.
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A leading thinker in the field of forestry challenges us to look at trees in a refreshingly different way.
Ekiyokere Diffa—or Eki, as she's known to her friends—is a Nigerian who received a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and Business Administration from Principia College, did graduate work in Environmental Management at Tufts University, and earned a Master's in Environmental Assessment and Evaluation from the London School of Economics.
Ideas on how you and I can help improve the environment.

Caring for great apes

The remarkable story of what has inspired one woman's work to rehabilitate and nurture orangutans and chimpanzees.

APES OR MONKEYS?

Monkeys are primates with tails, and apes are primates without tails.
The relationship we each have with the earth becomes more understandable, and less exploitative, when it's understood in spiritual terms.

Harvard conference in Boston

Today over half the medical schools in the US are studying the relationship between spirituality and medicine. Since 1996, a Boston conference has been exploring the trend.

Med school courses in mind/body relationship

Dr. Robert Leslie brings spirituality and healing, as well as medical ethics, into the university classroom.

Confidence in God heals malaria

The fever disappeared. It has never returned.

A new life

It was like a light bulb came on. Hope came back to me.

I felt I was coming home, and that I was enveloped in God's care.

Facial swelling healed

About three years ago, my husband and I were vacationing in Arizona.

Unselfish love radiates out into the mental environment we all share—and transforms it.