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Category Archives: Spirituality
Book Review: Passing the Music Down
A touching story about music, mentoring, and the communal nature of music.
Spiritual Practice: What Am I Adding?
Investigate how speaking badly of others affects ourselves.
Book Review: If I Had My Way . . .
A children's book that nips in the bud the problem of thinking you can always get what you want.
Book Excerpt: Evidence
Mary Oliver's poem about eternal joy.
Book Review: Cougar CubTales
A children's book that illustrates how openness leads to unity.
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.
Documentary Film Review: Koran by Heart
Profiles of three very young participants in a prestigious Koran recitation contest in Cairo.
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.
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.
Spiritual Practice: The Sacred Pause
A practice to help us to reconnect with the present moment.
Book Excerpt: Jesus in the Lotus
Russill Paul on how marriage carries meanings which characterize an authentic relationship with the Divine.
DVD Feature Film Review: Soul Surfer
The true story of a talented Hawaiian surfer who demonstrates great courage in the face of a setback to her dreams and discovers how she is meant to serve.
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.
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.
Book Excerpt: A People’s History of Christianity
On how human beings can participate in the journey of becoming like God.
Book Excerpt: Just Hospitality
Letty Russell on why the ministry of the church is to be partners with and hospitable to strangers.
DVD Feature Film Review: Heartbeats
A stylized and compelling portrait of the fever of romantic love in all it stages from immediate attraction through the yearning for reciprocation.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: The Turtle
Rick Bass writing on the spiritual practice of reverence after an encounter with a turtle.
Book Excerpt: Dignity for All
Robert Fuller and Pamela Gerloff with principles that will help to end rankism and respect others' dignity.