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Find your way into the sacred texts.
Follow a story, explore a question, or discover the history behind the words.
Read a story
People, choices, turning points.
A little background, a story you can follow, and a path into the original text.
Noah and the flood
What can begin again after almost everything has been lost?
Bible / TanakhRead the guide →Complete guide · NarrativeMoses: from the river to Sinai
How does a people escape slavery—and learn to live together afterward?
Bible / TanakhRead the guide →Complete guide · NarrativeThe birth of Jesus in Luke
Who recognizes a promised beginning when it arrives in an ordinary family?
BibleRead the guide →Complete guide · NarrativeYusuf: a dream, a separation, a reunion
What happens when the brother who was discarded becomes the one everyone needs?
QuranRead the guide →Complete guide · DialogueArjuna’s crisis
What if every available choice seems to betray something you owe to others?
Bhagavad GitaRead the guide →Complete guide · Later traditionKisā Gotamī and the mustard seed
How can a conversation with strangers change a grief that feels completely private?
DhammapadaRead the guide →Explore a question
Start with something you wonder about.
Read a few passages together, with their different voices and settings in view.
Who deserves our care?
Enemies, neighbours and the people we would rather overlook.
Explore the question →How do we recognize the limits of our knowledge?
Three short readings about certainty, humility and learning.
Explore the question →What makes an action responsible?
Doing, avoiding and answering for what we do.
Explore the question →How do texts respond to death?
Mortality, change and a conversation in the face of grief.
Explore the question →Places & history
The world around the words.
Explore story settings and 100 selected moments in religious history—from people and communities to the making and movement of texts.
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