Charismatic Visionary Scientists, Picture a young general standing in front of thirty thousand exhausted soldiers, thousands of miles from home, with no clear way back. He does not order them …
Meister Eckhart a preacher standing in a crowded German church in the year 1320. He tells ordinary farmers, merchants, and nuns that God is not far away in some distant …
Zoroaster is a strange thought to sit with for a moment. Every time you hear someone talk about heaven and hell, a final day of judgment, or angels battling demons, …
Akhenaten the Pharaoh, Imagine waking up one morning in the richest kingdom on earth and being told that every god your family has worshipped for a thousand years is now …
Teresa of Avila a sixteenth century woman, sick for most of her adult life, living in a country obsessed with controlling female behavior, and somehow she becomes one of the …
Buddha the Prince a young man who has never known hunger, never seen a wrinkle, never watched anyone die. Now picture that same man walking away from his palace, his …
Hildegard von Bingen a woman locked away in a stone cell at the age of eight, with no formal schooling, no medical degree, and no musical training. Now picture that …
Guru Nanak a fifteen-year-old boy in a dusty Punjabi village, staring at a sacred thread a priest wants to tie around his neck, and simply saying no. That boy grew …
Francis of Assisi: The Rich Rebel Who Gave Everything Away and Rebuilt Christianity Francis of Assisi a young man in his twenties, dressed in the finest cloth his father’s shop …
Rumi The Sufi Poet, Open any book store shelf in the United States, and you will likely find a slim volume with his name on the spine, tucked between self …
