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Spirituality and family caregiving

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A Minnesota nonprofit is inviting area spiritual leaders and family caregivers to Calvary Evangelical Free Church for an exploration of family caregiving and spirituality.

Organizers working with Joni and Friends hope Rochester communities of faith will increase their outreach to families living with physical, developmental and mental challenges.

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Holistic approach blends spirituality, nutrition, conventional treatments

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Holistic medicine takes a whole-person approach to healing - not only is the chemistry of the body considered, so is the workings of the patient's mind and spiritual health.

At one time this approach was considered out of the realm of conventional medicine, but today many physicians are adopting certain tenants of the holistic approach in their practice.

"Spirituality is a huge piece of how we address the stress in our lives," said Dr. Thomas Golemon, chairman and professor for the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria. "What's the most important thing to you and who's on your side when the chips are down?"

Golemon said he always has quietly addressed spirituality with his patients as an important piece in the puzzle of good health. Having a spiritual and social framework that helps patients deal positively with the difficulties of life is important.

"Certainly we know that mood, and how people address their lives does make a difference in how people get well," he said. "Your environment is important - do you belong to a church or a synagogue or do you have someone who can support you? All this stuff plays into what your blood pressure is doing."

But a good support system and a positive attitude is not the only thing - it's much more complicated than that. "Optimistic people still die of cancer," Golemon said. It's important for people to be selective in their use of alternative medical treatments - some things are good, but some can have negative consequences, Golemon said.

"Sometimes when I look at people's medicine lists, there are five, six, eight diet supplements there - a lot of time those supplements interact with the other medicines they are taking," Golemon said. "Is it good for them to be taking all these trace metals? I don't see the data for that."

Conventional medicine is research-based - in other words, doctors don't recommend treatments that have not been proven effective through scientific study. A few years ago studies pointed to fish oil as being good for the heart, and doctors began recommending that their patients take fish oil supplement. But while pills are convenient, it's not the same as consuming the real thing.

"Eating a fatty fish is much better than taking a pill of the oil from a fish," said Dr. Jeff Leman, family practice doctor and associate program director of the family medicine residency program.

Diet has become one tenant of holistic medicine wholeheartedly adopted by conventional medicine. Many studies have proven that patients can greatly improve their health - and in some cases cure disease - by consuming the right foods. Thirty years ago, this was a pretty radical idea.

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The Spirituality of Administration Turning Mundane Tasks into Redeeming Work (Webinar) – Video

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Raising McCain Ep. 107 – Spirituality | Atheism + Politics with Harvard’s Chris Stedman – Video

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In this episode of Raising McCain, Meghan and co-host Reza Aslan explore the significance of spirituality and how it is defined by Millennials today. Here, M...

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Late bishop a 'humble priest' whose spirituality touched thousands

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Rockville Centre, N.Y.

The "humility, sense of humor and, above all, spirituality" of retired Auxiliary Bishop James J. Daly of Rockville Centre, who died Oct. 14, "touched thousands and thousands of the faithful in a very deep and personal way," said the head of the diocese.

Bishop William Murphy said the late auxiliary bishop, who was 92 years old, was "truly a trailblazer and visionary during the early formative years of this diocese."

A funeral Mass was celebrated for Daly on Friday at the Cathedral of St. Agnes, followed by burial at St. Boniface Cemetery in Elmont, N.Y.

Murphy was the main celebrant, and concelebrants included Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York and several priests. The homilist was Msgr. James McNamara, episcopal vicar of the diocese's central vicariate and pastor Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Parish in Point Lookout.

In an Oct. 15 statement, Murphy noted that "so many of the people of God of this great diocese" experienced the late bishop's "witness as humble priest and later as auxiliary bishop."

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Daly "was always a calm, peaceful and reassuring presence," he added.

Born Aug. 14, 1921, in the Bronx and raised in Queens, Daly was ordained a priest of the diocese of Brooklyn in 1948. He served in the Brooklyn diocese and then Rockville Centre as an assistant pastor, as a teacher and as procurator at the diocesan seminary, Immaculate Conception in Huntington.

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Kiran Bedi, Rahul Easwar on Death of 115 Pilgrims, Technology for Spirituality – Cnn Ibn – Video

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M.I.A.: 'I Found Spirituality on Google'

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M.I.A.'s upcoming, long-delayed fourth album shares itsname with Matangi, the Hindu goddess of music and learning. The title may reflect a newfound spirituality for the Sri Lankan artist (whose birth name, Mathangi, also derives from "Matangi"), but M.I.A. didn't find faith through some fit of divine inspiration. She discovered it where else? through a search engine."I just found spirituality on Google," she told Faderrecently, "Which I hate."

The singer-rapper explains further, saying, "I Googled 'green,' andMatangipopped up. When I typed in 'Matangi,' it was me and then her on the two top links. Hers was like: 'She's got four arms and carried a sword because she fights for truth, but, like, lives in the ghetto and in the hood and has intoxicated eyes,' which kind of sounds like she smokes weed.I was like, 'Wow, she sounds pretty cool.' I sort of stopped thinking about my own life and I started thinking about hers, and spent time in India, going to universities and temples, looking for things that I could figure out, about women."

The idea of a hood-dwelling goddess fascinated M.I.A., who says she "never knew anything about spirituality" before. "[Matangi]was a gangster, she was from the hood, but she was a goddess and hangs out in the jungle," the 38-year-old says. "Loads of things about her werent like the roles in spirituality that were used to in the West, that youre either a whore like Mary Magdalene, or a Virgin Mary and conceive a child without having sex. Those two roles were not an option for me. In Hinduism, theyve got women who are into time-bending quantum physics... I became interested in all the multi-faceted ways a woman can exist, what the options for being a woman are."

But M.I.A. wants to clarify that the follow-up to 2010'sMAYAisn't explicitly "about women." That said, she tells Fader that she "wanted to make another way for women to exist that wasnt competing with Miley Cyrus who can be more slutty or to present it as, 'Im this completely clean person'...Matangiis more like, reproduction, feminine power and celebrating life."

Read the entire Q&A over at Fader, and for an extended preview of M.I.A.'s next LP (out November 5), listen to previously released tracks"Come Walk With Me,""Bring the Noize,""Only 1 U,""AtTENTion,"and"Bad Girls."And also check out a just-released snippet of new song "Y.A.L.A."

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Try on a "Bigger Story" about Religious Belief and Spirituality. 2013 10 13 13 29 48 – Video

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Laurent James: Eurasianism and Spirituality. The End Of The Present World Conference. – Video

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Youth Ministry Zone Expands Its Efforts to Help Youth Ministers Keep Teens Focused on Spirituality Instead of Miley …

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Its difficult for Christian teens to reconcile the images they see in the news and pop culture with their religious beliefs. They struggle to deal with the emotional weight of peer pressure, bullying, and school shootings. They must also deal with confusion about the morality of Miley Cyrus twerking. Thats why the Youth Ministry Zone has expanded its efforts to help youth ministers keep teens grounded in their spirituality by offering an expanded collection of online resources.

We created the non-denominational, lesson-based Youth Ministry Zone because we understand how busy youth ministers are, explains co-founder Paul Evans. We help them spend less time planning and more time connecting.

The Youth Ministry Zone now offers more than 300 youth bible lessons with a new lesson released each week. The outline, handouts, and small group discussion guide teach core bible principles without compromising the spiritual message. Youth ministers also have access to materials to help them lead devotionals, quiet times, and personal retreats.

Other resources include copy, tweak, and paste content that can be used in newsletters and emails to teens and their parents. To help youth ministers manage the administrative side of their ministry, the Youth Zone provides printable forms that include volunteer applications, leader job descriptions, and medical releases.

Co-founders Paul Evans and Al Millergren began providing resources for youth ministers in 1991 through direct mail, before the Internet was widely available. It wasnt until 1995 that they were able to reach youth ministers through their website, Teen Life Ministries. In 2004 they opened the Youth Ministry Zone to offer a wider range of resources.

To learn more about the expanded online resources for youth ministers, visit the Youth Ministry Zone. Once there, youth ministers can sign up for a membership that allows access the entire collection of resources for just $10 per month.

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Weigel explores modern spirituality through books

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MICHIGAN CITY Author Jenniffer Weigel was the featured speaker during the Writing Out Loud session held on Saturday at the Michigan City Public Library. Weigel, the daughter of Chicago sportscaster Tim Weigel, has written three books including her latest book, This Isn't the Life I Ordered.

Focusing on how she became interested in modern spirituality and why she writes about it, the Writing Out Loud session was held in a conversation setting, with Bethany Lee, an English professor at Purdue University North Central conducting the interview.

Lee began by questioning how Weigel became interested in writing. I've always loved writing. I've always loved storytelling, Weigel said. Writing is something I've been doing since I could hold a pen in my hand.

Growing up a Christian, Weigel stated that she always questioned things in life. I would keep journals about my thoughts from an early age, she said, pondering issues such as death and heaven even as a child.

After his death, Weigel stated that she had an ongoing conversation with her dad in her head. She would experience times of coincidences and intuition that she would interpret as signs, or winks, from her father.

Inspired by her journalistic nature to question the world around her, Weigel set out on a journey to better understand the spiritual side of life and death. She interviewed many people including mediums, psychics and healers in her search for answers.

Among those she met in her quest were other spiritual authors such as Deepak Chopra and James Van Praagh.

She also interviewed common, everyday people who have also experienced similar situations including a woman who was pronounced dead before coming back to life and a woman who experienced tumors all over her body but is now cancer free.

Sometimes you can't explain things and it's a hard thing for a journalist like me to understand, Weigel said.

While she did come across several frauds along the way, Weigel also met some people she believed to be the real thing. One psychic she visited, for example, mentioned Laurel and Hardy in regards to Weigel's father. This referenced a private joke between them that nobody else knew about, she said.

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