Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.

I could not get my fill of looking. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment.

I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.

Biblical names are hot again.

Mountains are where heaven meets earth.