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Doug Rose has logged more than a quarter-million miles on America’s highways, yet he’s never driven a car. The Brooklyn native has worked countless jobs in more than a dozen states, but he hasn’t had a permanent address since 1972. Rose has raised tens of thousands of dollars on behalf of orphaned children in Mexico, homeless people in Massachusetts and famine victims in Africa over the last 30 years. Yet the 56-year-old Vermonter has never had a bank account or credit card and, right now, probably has less than $500 to his name.... Read more

Last Saturday night, some 80 people packed the back room at Chow! Bella restaurant to hear intuitive counselor and medium Nan O’Brien draw spiritual energy from the cosmos and give it voice. The seventh of 10 stops on a tour marking the one-year anniversary of her first appearance on Star 92.9’s “Lana and Nolan in the Morning” show, the $35-a-head event sold out in a matter of days.... Read more

Many Vermonters are aware that their physical environment is out of whack. Lake Champlain, for instance, is freezing much less frequently than it used to, and global warming threatens the state’s maple-syrup industry. Local ecosystems, you might say, are crying out for help.... Read more

In awarding Elie Wiesel the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee described him as a "messenger to mankind." Wiesel, 78, will bring his message of activism against genocide to Burlington on April 25, when he is scheduled to speak at the University of Vermont.

The author of some 40 books, Wiesel is best known for Night, the disquieting account of his imprisonment as a young Jew in a series of Nazi death camps. Wiesel lost his mother, father and sister to the Holocaust.... Read more

Most film festivals promise to open your eyes. The organizers of the Spiritual Film Festival at the Unity Church of Vermont in Essex Junction have something more radical in mind - they want to change your life.... Read more

Sister Claire Boissy radiates such a warm, healing aura that just sitting in her presence seems to lift the weight of the world from your shoulders. Look into her twinkling blue eyes and her smiling, ruddy face and your muscles relax, your pulse eases, your mind turns to more philosophical matters. And when she asks, in that gentle, grandmotherly tone, "Where is God in all this for you?" there's not a trace of dogma or proselytism in her voice. Hers is a sincere entreaty about your day-to-day relationship with the divine -- whatever "divine" means to you.... Read more

The sight of motorcyclists in black leather traversing Vermont is common this time of year. Many of us imagine them as rebels, mavericks, members of biker gangs. But not all of them are Hell's Angels. Some of these dark riders are evangelical Christians biking for Jesus.

Take Philip Guica: The affable, soft-spoken Pittsford resident is the "Road Rep" for the Vermont Christian Riders. His group is a local chapter of the Motorcyclists for Jesus Ministries, one of many Christian biker groups. Guica reports that MJM counts about 300 members; his chapter has about 20.... Read more

Am I Buddhist?... Read more

Sage words carry on the breeze at the Burlington waterfront, near several massive oil tanks about a hundred yards up the bike path from Oakledge Park: "You can see that life on Earth, especially in civilized society, is basically getting worse," the speaker says. "And this is basically because we're getting more and more alienated from working in harmony with how the world likes things to be done."... Read more

Two large pieces of Barre Gray Granite are standing in Rob Roy's front yard in West Chazy, New York. You can't resist running your hand over the surface -- smooth on two sides, ridged with drill marks down the others. The stones are warm in the sun, reassuringly solid to the touch. They have an aura of permanence about them, immutable and unmoving. Small wonder. Each stone is a little over 11 feet long and weighs roughly 5 tons. They're not going anywhere.... Read more