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William Roache Court – Ken Barlow Coronation Street – Exclusive Spirituality Interview / Opinions – Video

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William Roache Court - Ken Barlow Coronation Street - Exclusive Spirituality Interview / Opinions
Coronation Street #39;s biggest Star, William Roache has appeared in the soap as Ken Barlow for over 50 years. 2013 has been a devastating year for Bill, he appe...

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The Role of Religion

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The Role of Religion Spirituality Among Caregivers of Persons with Dementia
Dr. Alison Kulak uses her own experience to relate how relgion, spirituality, and psychology work together in the care of persons with dementia.

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HC fumes at sexual exploitation of women in the garb of spirituality

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India, May 15 -- The Delhi high court on Wednesday expressed serious concern over increasing complaints of sexual exploitation of women in the garb of spirituality and said such accused do not deserve any mercy.

"It is revolting to see sanyas and spirituality being used as an excuse for such deplorable acts and this court strongly condemns it. These fake contentions achieve nothing but unfortunately succeed in making a mockery of courts", justice Kailash Gambhir said dismissing the anticipatory bail of one Dhiraj Kumar booked for rape.

"Exploiting a female in the garb of spirituality is against what our ethics dictate," the court said.

Taking note of the SMSes allegedly sent by the accused and contents of tapped conversations, the court said some parts of transcripts "clearly reveal that the applicant was having sexual relations with the complainant..."

These words (of tapped conversations) seem very bizarre coming from a person who is committed to the 'sanyasi' principles," the court said, adding the plea of 'sanyas' cannot be used "to escape from shackles of law".

Justice Gambhir said the facts and circumstances of the case clearly demonstrated that the petitioner did not approach the court with clean hands. The judge said the accused falsely projected himself as a sanyaasi and a spiritual person thereby bringing down the "sanctity of the values of these principles".

Published by HT Syndication with permission from Hindustan Times.

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Head of new Earth Corps program hopes to emphasize Franciscan spirituality

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As Milwaukee Franciscan Sr. Jose Hobday moved about the country presenting her retreats, the only items in her traveling wardrobe were two dresses and a sewing kit.

Hobday, who was part Seneca and Iroquois, called upon her Native American roots and its storytelling tradition to live simply and teach about prayer and spirituality. Simple living is "about choosing time for people and ideas and self-growth rather than for maintenance and guarding and possessing and cleaning," she wrote in her book, Simple Living.

During the 1980s and '90s, Hobday was a faculty member at Matthew Fox's Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality at Holy Names University in Oakland, Calif. I thought of this great lady a few weeks ago during a phone conversation with Rhett Engelking, a secular Franciscan. Hobday and Engelking are of different generations, but their hearts are beautifully connected by the call of simplicity. It remains an unbroken green thread within the Franciscan charism.

Next month, Engelking leaves Milwaukee and his position as a group therapist and leadership development coordinator at Rogers Memorial Hospital to be the program manager of the Franciscan Action Network's new Earth Corps project at the network's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Earth Corps is designed for young adults ages 18 to 35 who feel called to work at the grass-roots level on environmental, immigration and poverty issues within their parish settings. The project promotes simple and just living at community and personal levels.

"The big thing we are hoping to do is to bring about a transformative experience for young adults," Engelking said. "They have all the information they need on all of these social and environmental justice issues, but they don't know what to do with it."

His training programs will emphasize St. Francis of Assisi's philosophy of simplicity and offer practical tools for change at the local level. The courses also will study Franciscan Sr. Ilia Delio and Franciscan Br. Keith Warner's book, Care for Creation: A Franciscan Spirituality of the Earth.

The experiential level of the program will have people "digging in the dirt together, learning to see everything as sacred, and cultivating our universal sense of belonging," Engelking said. "It will stress moving from the 'egonomics' of greed into a truly compassionate economics directed toward the well-being of the entire planet."

Engelking comes from a sustainability background. He is currently a member of Casa Maria House of Hospitality, a Catholic Worker community in Milwaukee where half a dozen members live simple lifestyles. They practice carpooling, keep a garden to feed the poor and minimize personal expenditures. Members of Casa Maria House also are involved in public advocacy and recently marched on Milwaukee's financial district to protest the existing ideology of corporate personhood, a privileged status allowing companies unlimited freedom.

"If corporations didn't have sway to do what they please to the environment, the BP oil spill wouldn't have happened," he said. "But if a couple of my buddies and I were to dump a barrel of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, we'd be arrested."

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Houghton likes spirituality, passion of giving

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TAHLEQUAH Many people get their first taste of helping others through church membership, starting by visiting nursing homes as children, or as teens or adults helping with youth groups and on mission trips.

Larry Houghtons first experience as a volunteer was in the 1990s at Cookson United Methodist Church.

Besides church activities and being a steward with the church, we had a construction mission trip in 2000 that went to Juaurez, Mexico, to work two weeks building a medical clinic with the local Methodist organization, Houghton said. That is what really sparked my interests in the whole concept of giving back.

After that, he rarely went on a vacation just to go somewhere.

Its when you experience working in countries in the local towns with people less fortunate that you realize the true understanding of family and the simplicity of life at its most basic, Houghton said. The spirituality and passionate concept of giving is what makes me tick. Unfortunately, I didnt begin to understand this until early in my 30s, when I began to grow up but thats a whole other story.

A transplant from Colorado, Houghton has been blessed with a rewarding career in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections for 23 years, retiring in 2009. He grew up in Englewood, Colo., outside of Denver, with the beautiful Rocky Mountains and cold, clear streams, enjoying camping and fishing.

I met my wife, Susan, in 1979 and moved with two children to Sand Springs in 1982, where she could be closer to her aunt, he said.

On a road trip one weekend with the family, he fell in love with the Lake Tenkiller area, and especially the Cherokee Courthouse Square in downtown Tahlequah.

I think we all have similar court squares in our own home towns that remind us of the good old days. I never would have thought Oklahoma had such beautiful landscape and kind-hearted people, along with the Illinois River and Lake Tenkiller in Green Country, he said.

He moved from Sand Springs in 1985 to live near the lake.

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The Spirituality is ‘Thought Provoking’

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Shen Yun Performing Arts New York Company's curtain call at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theater, on May 11.(The Epoch Times)

CHICAGOThe spirituality was one of the things Jim Nelson, an artist and illustrator, really liked about Shen Performing Arts New York Companys performance at the Cadillac Palace Theater on Sunday afternoon, May 12. Its just thought provoking, he said.

Shen Yuns mission is to revive the divinely inspired traditional Chinese culture through dance, music, and song. The corner stone of a Shen Yun performance is story-based dance, and classical Chinese and ethnic dance.

I think its really terrific so far, said Mr. Nelson at intermission. I really like the costumes. I love the stories behind the performances, like the mythology and some of the sentiment behind some of them.

As an artist, and having an eye for color, he said he loved the colors in Shen Yun. Its wonderful, especially the color in motion too. I was commenting to my sister that I loved the long sleeves in some of the dances, and they use them to create motion and emotion, he said.

The costumes themselves are really beautiful, and there is a great variety of them too, Mr. Nelson explained. I assume they each reflect a different aspect of Chinese culture and history. It seems like they put some serious thought into it.

According to Shen Yuns website: Every detail is given meticulous attention and is a result of artistic inspiration and careful polishing. Their objective is an authentic presentation of the attire that comes from Chinas divinely inspired traditional culture.

What I know of the spirituality of Chinese culture, I think it is something we could use more of in the world now, because to me it seems to be much more about treating each other right and finding inner-peace, Mr. Nelson said.

After seeing Shen Yun, Mr. Nelson said he would tell his friends, To go see it!

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Gail Thackray (Spirituality Healing) on The Woman #39;s Connection w/Barrie-Louise Switzen
Gail Thackray joins Barrie-Louise Switzen on The Woman #39;s Connection. The Woman #39;s Connection is about events shaping women #39;s lives and helping them gain powe...

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Shen Yun Is an ‘Unexpected Mixture’ of ‘Spirituality, Music, and Entertainment,’ Says Vaccine Specialist

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Adriana and Danie Perez attend Shen Yun Performing Arts at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theater, on May 11. (Catherine Wen/The Epoch Times)

CHICAGOThe grace and wisdom of ancient Chinese legends sprang to life at the Cadillac Palace Theater this weekend, as the world renowned Shen Yun Performing Arts took the Chicago stage.

According to theatergoer Adriana Perez, the performance was an unexpected mixture of spirituality, music, and entertainment.

Mrs. Perez, a senior vaccine specialist and Director of Marketing for A to Z Pediatric and Youth Health Care, attended the show with her husband, Daniel Perez, a pediatrician.

A piece standing out for her was Sewing the Flowers of Heaven. The performance depicts celestial maidens tossing and spinning brightly colored silk circles symbolizing blessings for mankind.

I thought that was really interesting, she said. It was very beautiful and very enjoyable.

The couple remarked about the spiritual aspects of the showqualities that they say are lacking in most contemporary entertainment.

Were deeply spiritual, so I thought that was nice, Mrs. Perez said. Here in the American culture they remove so much spirituality from entertainment. It was very nice to see how its embraced here.

The mission of New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts is to revive the 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture. In addition to portraying ancient legends, performers utilize the same classical dance and storytelling techniques to shed light modern China as well, especially the Chinese Communist regimes persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.

I think that was something we hear in the media about the persecution, said Mr. Perez. We were surprised it was displayed and portrayed in a performance like this.

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Spirituality stressed

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WORCESTER The FBI agent who led the investigation into the Boston marathon bombing received a standing ovation at Assumption College's commencement exercises on Saturday.

Richard DesLauriers, special agent in charge of the FBI's Boston field division and a 1982 Assumption graduate returned to his alma mater to deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.

When Mr. DesLaurier's role in bringing the alleged marathon bombers to justice was mentioned during his honorary-degree citation, the 605 graduates and thousands of guests assembled under a tent on the college's H.L. Rocheleau Field rose to cheer and applaud.

As chief of the FBI's Boston branch, Mr. DesLauriers also has played a lead role in investigating the $500 million art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and announced the arrest of one of the most wanted fugitives in U.S. history, reputed mobster James Whitey Bulger.

Mr. DesLauriers said his Assumption education taught him the value of a moral compass, which he said is absolutely essential to success in work and life.

Possessing a moral compass is as vitally important today as it was when I graduated from Assumption College 31 years ago, he said, especially in a world which today so often appears morally agnostic, and where clear lines differentiating right from wrong are frequently blurred by greed, pride, envy, and any of the other `seven deadly sins.'

Each and every FBI agent needs to be guided by a moral compass which directs them on a daily basis to act in a manner which honors the three words for which the letters FBI stand: Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity.

He credited the liberal arts education he received at Assumption with teaching him to think logically and in a reasoned and analytical manner by exposing him to the thought of Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine. He said the college honed the writing skills he has needed to compose the detailed and accurate investigative reports required of an FBI agent.

Mr. DesLauriers urged graduates, whatever their faith tradition, to maintain their spirituality. As each of us walks down the road of life, know that we are not merely human beings on a spiritual journey, but we are truly spiritual beings on a human journey, he said.

The threat of rain didn't dampen spirits at the commencement exercises, the 96th held by the Catholic liberal arts college founded by the religious order the Augustinians of the Assumption.

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