Eat, Pray, Love Your Brother

The Julia Roberts blockbuster—and the Elizabeth Gilbert memoir it’s based on—get the prayer part all wrong

Religion Can Be Spiritual, Says ‘Forward’ Columnist

But it’s still pretty lame

God of My Children

The impact belief systems have on our happiness

Tooting Their Own Horns

Musical know-it-alls talk the talk, but can they walk the walk?

Radical Mystic

A onetime scientist’s progression from atheism to spiritualism

Dreams of the Father

Rodger Kamenetz’s latest spiritual trip is into the subconscious

Serious Moonlight

A nighttime epiphany leads to a major change

Ritual du Jour

Vanessa Ochs studies “bark mitzvahs” and other modern inventions

Fertility Rites

The longing that made a writer turn to God