A story of a mentally handicapped man who finds a way of expressing joy to others on their way to work.
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Book Review: Change the World, Change Your Life
A survey of the challenges, rewards, and soulful adventures of service and volunteerism.
Book Review: Secrets of Great Marriages
Interviews with 27 couples in long relationships who share their wisdom.
Book Excerpt: Awakening the Creative Spirit
Christine Valters Paintner's adaptation of an Examen prayer using gentle arm movements to access the body's wisdom.
Book Review: Awakening the Creative Spirit
Explores the important role the arts can play in spiritual direction.
Book Excerpt: Field of Compassion
A story about a caring man and his compassion for a beached whale.
Book Review: Field of Compassion
Melds science and spirituality in a Catholic vision of transformation and compassion in a broken world.
Book Excerpt: A Whole New Mind
Daniel H. Pink on laughter as a healing, healthy, and joyful practice that is invading the workplace.
Book Excerpt: The Mindful Child
Susan Kaiser Greenland's mindfulness practice for children - Sending Friendly Wishes.
Book Excerpt: Hand Wash Cold
Karen Maezen Miller's list of little acts of kindness that make all the difference in the world.
Book Excerpt: The Hidden Power of the Gospels
Alexander Shaia's profound and practical interpretations of the Nine Beatitudes.
Book Review: The Hidden Power of the Gospels
Fresh, creative, and profound interpretations and insights into the four Gospels and spiritual practices to go along with them.
Book Excerpt: After You Believe
N. T. Wright on why Christians are called to learn and practice the disciplines of a God-reflecting life.
Book Review: After You Believe
Makes a good case for believers to take seriously the formation of character and the practice of virtues in everyday life.
Book Review: Seedlip and Sweet Apple
Creative and compelling poems about the life and ministry of Mother Ann Lee, the founder of the Shaker religion in colonial America.
Book Excerpt: In Pursuit of Silence
George Prochnik with suggestions for creative ways to create more silence in our lives and our cities.
Book Review: In Pursuit of Silence
An exquisitely written and enlightening defense of silence in an increasingly noisy world.
Book Excerpt: Autobiography of a Sadhu
Rampuri's overview of ascetics in India called sadhus and their role in Hinduism.
Book Review: Autobiography of a Sadhu
An American takes us on his adventurous and rewarding spiritual quest to India where he becomes the first foreigner to be initiated into an ancient society of yogis and shamans
Book Excerpt: Laughter, Tears, Silence
Pragito Dove on noticing how you judge people as they pass you while walking on the street.