Our Spirituality Has Implications for Healing Our Democracy

Findings from the 2020 launch of our Study of Spirituality in the United States revealed a stunning fifty percent of respondents said that they desire to be more spiritual. Respondents also identified peace and love as the top two benefits...

Where Science, Storytelling, and the Sacred Meet: Introducing the Study of Spirituality in America

In the last decade, more and more people consider themselves “spiritual.” But what does this mean exactly and why does it matter? We know there is more to the story, but little research exists into the range of perspectives behind...

Sacrality Practice: Visualizing Spirituality

Last year, we released “What Does Spirituality Mean to Us? A Study of Spirituality in the US,” a groundbreaking study designed to help us explore what spirituality means to us and how it influences our civic lives. The study revealed...

Being Spiritual: The Study of Spirituality in America

What do we mean when we say we are spiritual? We are asking this question as part of the Study of Spirituality in America. As the qualitative phase of this research concludes, we are uncovering important nuances in what religion...

Omar McRoberts on the Landscape of Religion, Spirituality, and Identity in America

Omar M. McRoberts, PhD, is an advisor to Fetzer’s Study of Spirituality in America, which comprises in-depth interviews and focus groups (both completed) and a survey that will be fielded in early 2020. Omar recently co-presented “The Changing Landscape of...

Safe House Seven Offers a Culturally Rooted Alternative to Traditional Therapy

Deconstructing Our Culture of Violence

Jacques Verduin is a subject matter expert on mindfulness, restorative justice, emotional intelligence, and transforming violence. A father, community organizer, and teacher, he is the founder of GRIP Training Institute (Guiding Rage Into Power), which helps prisoners and challenged youth...

Infrastructures of Mystery — Scaffolding the Wonder of Existence

A Shared Sacred Worldview: A Framework for Shared Sacred Flourishing

A Short Summary (August 5, 2025) Introduction The Religions for Peace tagline, Different Faiths-Common Action, expresses RfP's core mission of promoting Peace and its fundamental principle of respecting each participating religious community's way of experiencing, cherishing, and understanding the Sacred....

Fragile Recordings: Reflecting on Social Media and Other Communication Marvels

The world is already split open, and it is in our destiny to heal it, each in our own way, each in our own time, with the gifts that are ours. —Terry Tempest Williams in When Women Were Birds As I...