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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Feature Film Review: Love Crime
A highly focused and well-directed French psychodrama set in the corporate world where power plays and competition can lead to disastrous events.
Feature Film Review: Higher Ground
A spiritual drama that challenges viewers to map their own journey of faith, asking questions, having doubts, and seeking a closer connection with God.
Feature Film Review: Amigo
A portrait of American imperialism set in an occupied village during the 1900 Philippine-American War.
Book Excerpt: Your Body Speaks Your Mind
Deb Shapiro on the many meanings and metaphors associated with the heart.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: The Elusive Big Idea
An essay on what it means to live in a post-idea world where thinkers with big ideas have been replaced by trivial pursuits monitored on social networks.
Book Excerpt: Mirrors
Eduardo Galeano with two excerpts on the shadow side of life revealed through criminal statistics not counted and the lethal weapon of our cars.
DVD Feature Film Review: Queen to Play
An elegant and inspiring French drama about a chambermaid who follows her passion for chess and finds her life transformed.
DVD Feature Film Review: The Bang Bang Club
True story of thrill-seeking photojournalists in South Africa just before the historic elections.
DVD Feature Film Review: The Conspirator
A poignant and ethically-charged courtroom drama about yet another overlooked and forgotten abomination from America's past.
DVD Feature Film Review: Jane Eyre
An inventive and fertile screen adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's 1847 novel.
Book Excerpt: The Workplace and Spirituality
Joan Marques, Satinder Dhiman, and Richard King on why it's natural to bring love and spirituality into the workplace.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: The Average Catholic Is Reading Joyce Rupp
An interview by Orbis Press editor-at-large Michael Leach with Joyce Rupp who lives with more questions than answers.
Book Excerpt: Dom Helder Camara
Dom Helder Camara on life being made up of sacrifices and acts of anonymous heroism.
Book Excerpt: Apprenticed to Spirit
A message from David Spangler's mentor from the invisible world about making choices.
Book Excerpt: Life Gets Better
Wendy Lustbader on older people having room in their lives for generosity.
Book Review: Life Gets Better
Stories and conversations with older adults on flourishing as they age.
Book Excerpt: Restoring Life’s Missing Pieces
Caren Goldman on the difficulty of letting go of our dear possessions.
Book Review: Restoring Life’s Missing Pieces
Spiritual exercises for revisiting people, places, things and self as a process of personal transformation.
Book Review: Apprenticed to Spirit
A spiritual memoir about the author's 27-year relationship with a teacher and mentor from the non-physical world.