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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Book Review: A Butterfly Is Patient
A short but sweet glimpse into the wonderful world of butterflies.
Book Review: Mindful Monkey, Happy Panda
A wonderful children’s book about the Buddhist practice of mindfulness.
Book Excerpt: Saving Jesus from the Church
Robin Meyers on how the practice of Christianity is made possible not by intellectual assent to propositions but by an existential embrace of worthiness or grace.
Film Feature: Apes and Other Animals
Curated content on human relationships with apes and other animals.
Feature Film Review: Littlerock
A character-driven cross-cultural drama about the adolescent quest for new experiences and the realization of the mysteries that lie behind relationships and reality.
Feature Film Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
A sci-fi thriller that touches the heart and is sure to create many new and enthusiastic animal activists.
Feature Film Review: The Whistleblower
A compelling true story about the transformation of a female Nebraska cop into a heroic whistleblower in Bosnia in 1999.
Book Excerpt: Finding Happiness
Abbot Christopher Jamison on why greed is always present in our hearts in some form or another and gratitude is the antidote.
Documentary Film Review: Koran by Heart
Profiles of three very young participants in a prestigious Koran recitation contest in Cairo.
DVD Feature Film Review: A Screaming Man (Un Homme Qui Crie)
One man's dark night of the soul brought on by civil war in Chad.
Book Excerpt: Evidence
Mary Oliver's poem about eternal joy.
Spiritual Practice: What Am I Adding?
Investigate how speaking badly of others affects ourselves.
Spiritual Practice: Circle of Acceptance
Four steps to help resolve inner conflict through acceptance.
Spiritual Practice: A Friend in the Heart
Acknowledging you are your own best friend.
Spiritual Practice: Let It Go
Let go of what doesn't serve you.
Spiritual Practice: A Meditation at Your Computer
Ten points of meditation on your keyboard.
Spiritual Practice: A Hugging Meditation Practice
When we hug, we know we are not separate.
DVD Feature Film Review: The Music Never Stopped
Touching story about the emotional uplift of music, the tenderizing of a family member's heart, and a father-son reconciliation like nothing you've ever seen before; one of the best films of 2011.
DVD Feature Film Review: Meek’s Cutoff
A meditative Western that focuses on the spiritual transformation of a female settler into a leader as she journeys West in a covered wagon caravan.