Religion: A Substantial Part of Our Sacred Human Experience

Long before we built temples, wrote scriptures or gathered beneath stained-glass windows, human beings were already searching.

We looked into the darkness of the night sky and wondered. We buried our dead with tenderness and ceremony. We marked the turning of seasons, the arrival of children, the passage from one stage of life into another. We created songs, stories, symbols and rituals to remind ourselves that we weren’t alone.

Religion emerged from this ancient human longing: The desire to find meaning within mystery.

But perhaps religion isn’t something that’s separate from human life. Perhaps it’s one expression of something much older and more universal, the human impulse to create…