CROSS-CULTURAL CONFERENCE: We’ve got live highlights from the international “Religion, Conflict and Peace” conference.

FRIENDSHIP AND FAITH: The true story of an American woman who travels to Russia and finds a surprising reversal in her assumptions about friends—and enemies.

RECOMMENDED READING: If you’re staying close to home this summer—and catching up on reading—have we got a treat for you! Today is the first review in our “Great Summer Reading” series.

WORLD-CHANGING NEWS: Nice guy! World-changing message! Scientist Marc Bekoff uses his instinct for hopeful persuasion to produce the remarkable “Animal Manifesto.”
Read Part 1 of our interview with Marc.
And, here is Part 2 of our interview.

NEW FROM THE SPIRITUAL WANDERER: Think life’s tough? Out of work? Know someone who is? Yes, you do, if you read the Spiritual Wanderer, aka Rodney Curtis. Today, he writes about re-enlisting in the army of the unemployed.

FRIENDSHIP AND FAITH’S NEW WEEKLY STORY: An Indian-American follower of the Jain tradition tells her story, this week, about losing herself in American culture—then finding her tradition and her community again through friendship and renewed faith.

INSPIRING READING: Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu and his daughter, the Rev. Mpho Tutu, tell us why we really are “Made for Goodness”—and why that is true no matter what evil the world throws in our faces!