I sometimes encountered, in churches and elsewhere—in the presence of a venerable Buddhist monk, in the cantor’s singing at a bar mitzvah, and on mountain hikes—something compelling, powerful, even terrifying that I could not ignore, and I had come to see that, besides belief, Christianity involves...
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The religious scholar Elaine Pagels spoke with Zainab about belief, connectedness, and journeying through suffering and loss. Here, an eclectic collection of inspiration: "I use words a lot as a writer," she says. "But I always love the time we go beyond words into music, into dance, into embrace."
