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Robin Read is President and CEO of the National Foundation for Women Legislators (NFWL), an organization established to provide strategic resources to elected women for leadership development and effective government. Read has worked as a businesswoman, broadcaster, and teacher in the private sector; in the public sector she has worked at the US Department of Agriculture, in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

In 1984 , when I was a freshman in college, I lost my hearing. According to hearing tests, I had nerve damage.

Is forgiveness the bridge between science and religion? Scientific evidence is mounting that forgiveness isn't simply an abstract virtue or a warm-and-fuzzy theological idea. It's practical.

The 2002 annual Spirituality & Healing in Medicine conference convened in Boston in December. Two new sponsors—The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health—joined with Harvard Medical School and the Mind/Body Medical Institute to support this year's event.

This time Canyon Road greeted us with a few surprises. Biting cold, rather than the dry summertime breezes typical of the New Mexican high country.

Have you ever thought, "I'll be happy when .

My wife Judy and I were eager to visit Bosnia, where our son is studying the return of displaced peoples, to meet his friends and a particular Bosnian family that has been so kind to him. And, too, we wanted to understand better what had brought this beautiful country to war, setting Catholics, Serbian Orthodox, and Muslims against each other.

"The United Nations says there is a significant rise in religious extremism and intolerance throughout the world. 'No religion is free from extremism,' declares Abdelfattah Amor, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Religious Intolerance.

It Seems Reasonable that when you want a yard of fabric, it's good to know what a yard is. By the same token, when you want to understand religious fundamentalism and extremism, it's good to know what religion is.

Since September 11, 2001 , the world has been hearing a lot about Islamic fundamentalism. Yet fundamentalism itself is a general term that applies to more than just an extreme part of the world of Islam.