Sophy Burnham on intuition needing the spurs of silence and solitude.
Category Archives: Spirituality
Book Review: How to Love
Enlightening insights on whom to avoid and whom to cherish in our search for intimacy in our relationships.
Book Excerpt: How to Love
Gordon Livingston on why people who like to plan and manifest a certain rigidity do not tolerate surprises or interruptions well.
Book Review: Living A Course in Miracles
Profound interpretations of A Course in Miracles by a parish minister and scholar who has been writing and teaching this path since 1976.
Book Excerpt: The Power of Intention
Wayne Dyer with a teaching story about appreciating beauty.
Book Excerpt: Things Hidden
Richard Rohr's interpretation of forgiveness in Noah's Ark.
Documentary Film Review: Certifiably Jonathan
A documentary about the elderly comedian Jonathan Winters and his quest to have his paintings exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art.
Book Excerpt: Plant Seed, Pull Weed
Geri Larkin on learning to lose, and allowing grace.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: A Graying Population Spells Business Opportunity
New products and services being developed for the 76 million Baby Boomers looking forward to a long life expectancy.
DVD Feature Film Review: It’s Kind of a Funny Story
A magical movie about five days in a psychiatric hospital that gives a depressed 15-year old a new lease on life.
DVD Feature Film Review: Tamara Drewe
Stephen Frears' spiffy comedy of manners about infatuation, envy, jealousy, and adultery.
DVD Feature Film Review: Life as We Know It
Katherine Heigl in a funny and snappy performance in a romantic comedy.
Book Excerpt: Using the Enneagram in Prayer
Book Review: All That We Share
A bold and imaginative call for a major paradigm shift from the market system to the commons where sharing and caring are the operative ideals.
Book Excerpt: The Way of Mary
Mary Ford-Grabowsky's exercise to feel gratitude for people who helped you and people you helped.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: Interview with Matthieu Ricard
An interview with Buddhist teacher Matthieu Ricard on the skill of happiness, meditation, generosity, mind training, intention, and spiritual practice.
Documentary Film Review: Carbon Nation
A documentary with a varied group of Americans talking about solutions to the very-real crisis of climate change.
Feature Film Review: Cedar Rapids
A rollicking comedy about a sheltered and insecure 34-year-old Midwestern insurance agent whose life is transformed at an annual convention.
Book Excerpt: Conversations on Religion
Karen Armstrong on love or the Golden Rule (in a book edited by Mick Gordon and Chris Wilkinson).
Book Excerpt: God Is No Laughing Matter
Julia Cameron on experiencing kindness all around.