A children's story that celebrates the spiritual nature of singing when it is done to make the world right and to calm the restless soul.
Category Archives: Spirituality
Book Review: A Place to Call Home
Seven little critters on an awesome adventure.
Book Review: Little Pig Joins the Band
A clever story for children about how a little pig surprises himself by building on the right stuff he finds within himself.
Book Excerpt: Love Never Faileth
Eknath Easwaran's teaching story illustrating that it's the significance we ascribe to that which we hear, not what we hear itself, that brings on an attack of anxiety.
Book Excerpt: This Flowing Toward Me
Marilyn Lacey's reflection on what it feels like to be welcomed.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: The Twitter Trap
Assessment of the wide effects of the social media on human characteristics by an editor at The New York Times.
Book Feature: Resources on the Journey of Faith
Books and excerpts revealing how spiritual teachers, preachers, and academics on faith formation and the journey of faith, resources to complement the film Higher Ground.
DVD Documentary Film Review: Elsewhere
A cross-cultural gem that opens our eyes, minds, and hearts to people in remote regions of the world.
Book Review: The I’m Not Scared Book
A wise work on embracing your fears and reframing them.
Book Review: A Little Bitty Man and Other Poems for the Very Young
Playful and light-hearted poems that will elicit children's laughter.
Book Review: What If Everything Had Legs?
How a creative mother uses imagination to energize her moody daughter.
Book Review: Bailey
Fun story about the day in the life of an enthusiastic dog who loves going to school.
Book Review: I Am Tama, Lucky Cat
An adorable cat who in return for a monk's kindness brings good fortune to the temple.
Book Excerpt: A Heart Afire
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi on seeing the divine image stamped on our being.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: Oxford Dictionary Defines Sexting, Cyberbullying
Tech terms from the Internet now in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.
Feature Film Review: Our Idiot Brother
A delightfully funny film about a modern-day holy fool who brings chaos into the lives of his three sisters while opening their hearts at the same time.
Book Excerpt: Writing Down Your Soul
Janet Connor on why questions are the Mars Explorers of your psyche.
Book Review: The God Upgrade
A case for God upgrades in Judaism that make it relevant and meaningful to Jews who have fallen away from faith and practice.
Book Excerpt: A Book of Wonders
Edward Hays on living a life of wonder and awe.
Book Excerpt: The God Upgrade
Jamie S. Korngold on ways to make Judaism relevant and meaningful in your life.