Lonni Collins Pratt and Daniel Homan's story challenging us to be hospitable to others.
Category Archives: Spirituality
Book Review: Buddha Standard Time
A timely and wide-ranging book on the wisdom Buddhism has to offer in response to our addictions to time starvation, speed, and distractions.
Book Review: The Power of Optimism
A salute to the Twelve Characteristics of Tough-Minded Optimists.
Naming the Days Feature: The Gifts of Good Friday: Compassion and Mercy
For centuries, people have tried to understand the power and the significance of Jesus' suffering on the cross on Good Friday. Here are two responses.
Book Excerpt: The Inner Smile
Mantak Chia on the joy of the inner smile.
Book Excerpt: Prayers for Healing
Jim Cohn's poem on carrying the cure within yourself.
Book Excerpt: The Children’s Book of Poems, Prayers and Meditations
Peter Dixon's poem "Questions."
Book Review: Falling Upward
A visionary work about the second stage of life as an unfolding of spiritual maturity.
Book Excerpt: Falling Upward
Richard Rohr on failure and suffering as the great equalizers.
Book Review: Generation WTF
Practical and inspiring advice for recent college graduates who have their dreams derailed by the financial melt-down.
Book Excerpt: Generation WTF
Christine B. Whelan on how it's helpful to have bright lines delineating what we can and can't do whenever we try to change.
Book Excerpt: Bulletproof Faith
Candace Chellew-Hodge with sane advice for gay and lesbian Christians.
Documentary Film Review: African Cats
The struggle for survival in Kenya of a wild cheetah and her newborns and an elderly lioness and her cub.
Feature Film Review: The Bang Bang Club
True story of thrill-seeking photojournalists in South Africa just before the historic elections.
Documentary Film Review: POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
A zany and thought-provoking documentary about the omnipresence of advertising in our lives and the large role of product placement in movies
Feature Film Review: Water for Elephants
The screen adaptation of a bestselling novel that is both a magical carpet ride about the circus and a parable about loving and learning from animals.
Book Review: The Winner’s Brain
Basic brain practices that can lead to high levels of human achievement.
Book Excerpt: The Winner’s Brain
Jeff Brown and Mark Fenske reveal spiritual practices to boost hope in life.
Book Review: The Most Human Human
A creative and thought-provoking book about Artificial Intelligence and the special gifts of human beings.
Book Excerpt: The Most Human Human
Brian Christian on the highest ethical calling being curiosity.