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Category Archives: Spirituality
Feature Film Review: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest
The last installment in the Millennium series of Swedish films reveals the dangers of zealots in places of power and prestige.
Feature Film Review: Jolene
A road movie that charts the adventures of an orphan teenage girl as she experiments with marriage, adultery, and sexuality.
Feature Film Review: Inspector Bellamy
An amiable and philosophical French film about the intimacy of marital love, the art of crime detection, and the confession of a dark family secret.
Book Excerpt: Reposition Yourself Reflections
T. D. Jakes on living your life without limits, but accepting there are risks.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: New Occasions Teach New Delights
Humans change, so changing your spiritual practice is human.
DVD Animated Film Review: How to Train Your Dragon
An animated feature about a boy making friends with his community's enemy, the dragon.
Book Excerpt: Everyday Herbs in Spiritual Life
Michael Caduto on plants as spiritual teachers.
Book Excerpt: Beloved
Henri J.M.Nouwen on what worship does for us.
Book Review: Passages in Caregiving
Shares resources, stories, and varied approaches to the challenges of caregiving for a loved one with a chronic illness.
Book Excerpt: Passages in Caregiving
Gail Sheehy on fearlessly advocating for your loved one and taking care of yourself.
Book Excerpt: The Buddha Is Still Teaching
Jack Kornfield on how we are all interconnected.
Book Excerpt: How to See Yourself As You Really Are
His Holiness the Dalai Lama on moving beyond attachment and competitiveness to love and compassion.
Book Review: The Wisdom Jesus
Soulful presentation of Jesus as a Wisdom Teacher of inner transformation.
Book Review: The Buddha Is Still Teaching
A top-drawer collection of Buddhist wisdom and teachings from 75 contemporary writers.
Book Excerpt: The Wisdom Jesus
Cynthia Bourgeault on our need to bridge the gap between what we believe and what we actually live.
Book Review: Nine Lives
Creative portraits of nine religious men and women in contemporary India who are pursuing alternative paths, far from the engines of progress and development.
Book Review: Plant Whatever Brings You Joy
Uses gardening as a universal metaphor to explore the adventures of life and the path of spiritual transformation.
Book Excerpt: Notes from the Edge Times
Daniel Pinchbeck on not knowing.
Book Excerpt: Plant Whatever Brings You Joy
Kathryn Hall on self-nurture through making a place in your life for grace and the unknown.