Believers

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - Hinduism - Where It All Begins
3. Chapter Two - Buddhism - The Path Beneath Your Feet
4. Chapter Three - Christianity - The Love That Wouldn’t Die
5. Chapter Four - Islam - The Peace in Surrender
6. Chapter Five - Judaism - The Star and the Candles
7. Chapter Six - Sikhism - The Sword and the Song
8. Chapter Seven - Taoism - The Way That Walks Itself
9. Chapter Eight - Confucianism - The Order That Listens
10. Chapter Nine - Jainism - The Gentlest Step
11. Chapter Ten - Zoroastrianism - The Fire That Remembers
12. Chapter Eleven - Bahá’í - The Light That Gathers.
13. Chapter Twelve - Shinto - The Spirit in All Things
14. Chapter Thirteen - Paganism and the Mythic Paths - The Stories That Lived
15. Chapter Fourteen - Indigenous Beliefs - The Wisdom That Walks With the Land
16. Chapter Fifteen - New Age, No Age, and the Space Between
17. Chapter Sixteen - The Ones Who Watch

Excerpt

PROLOGUE I USED TO say it all the time, “They’re all kind of right.” And I meant it. Not in the watered-down, bumper-sticker way. I mean they’re all looking at the same light through different windows. Some call it God. Some call it the Tao. Some just call it being good. Some draw it with flames, or write it into laws, or bury it in silence. Some say you need to believe. Some say you just need to see. But they’re all trying to answer the same question: What are we doing here, and how do we not mess it up? This book isn’t here to debate anyone or prove anything. It’s not here to tell you who’s right or wrong. It’s here to walk through the stories people tell when they look up at the sky and...