One of my favorite professors gave me a piece of advice that stayed with me: He told me never to raise a word against Buddhism until I had actually read and understood its Scripture. I took that challenge to heart. After reading those texts, I never found a reason to speak against them.

Courts have not fully educated themselves on the reality of dementia, that the man they’re executing is no longer the man who committed the crime.

An unseen source of all beauty, truth, and goodness was seen by many early Christians as pointing toward God.

My ancestors were told that their gods, their rituals, their ways of relating to the land were evil—and they were punished for honoring them.

Two of my favorite paintings are by Carl Bloch and Frans Schwartz of the same subject.