The icons of William Hart McNichols and the lyrical meditations of Mirabai Starr combine in a tribute to Mary.
Category Archives: Spirituality
Book Review: Notes from the Edge Times
Hard-hitting essays criticizing contemporary culture and offering new ways of transforming the nation and its roll toward self-destruction.
Book Excerpt: Mother of God Similar to Fire
Mirabai Starr's devotion to Mary as the Mother of suffering.
Book Excerpt: Secrets of Prayer
Nancy Corceran on the devotion of linking prayer and action in the world.
Book Review: The Greatest Prayer
Explores the Lord's Prayer in Matthew as a manifesto and hymn of hope.
Book Excerpt: Comfort Prayers
June Cotner's collection of poems on hope (by Betty Taylor, Barbara Crooker, and Suzanne C. Cole).
Book Excerpt: The Greatest Prayer
John Dominic Crossan on how God-as-Electricity is always there.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: As Nations Age, a Chance for Younger Generations
The meaning of old age has been transformed by the high rate of unemployment, early retirement, and the large number of part-time older workers.
Book Excerpt: Nine Lives
William Dalrymple's story of a Jain woman's devotional walking practice.
Book Review: Perseverance
Explores the spiritual value and many meanings of perseverance.
Book Excerpt: Perseverance
Margaret J. Wheatley on how the journey of perseverance begins with fire, the passion of our cause.
Book Review: Psyche & the City
Essays describing the individual psyches and souls of some of the world's greatest cities.
Book Excerpt: Psyche & the City
Murray Stein (in a book edited by Thomas Singer) on the meaning of monuments.
DVD Documentary Film Review: Theater of War
A thought-provoking documentary about the 2006 Public Theatre's presentation of Mother Courage and Her Children and the life and work of Bertolt Brecht.
DVD Feature Film Review: Please Give
One of the best movies ever about guilt as the guardian of our goodness and a sign of our yearning to belong to the larger world.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: Religion, Politics: Walking Away from Church
Millennial youth turn away from religious affiliation after being turned off by political activists from the religious right.
DVD Documentary Film Review: Smash His Camera
A robust and snappy documentary about Ron Galella, the controversial photographer of America's superstars and celebrities.
Book Excerpt: Green Yoga
Georg Feuerstein and Brenda Feuerstein on changes that must be made based on reverence for all life forms.
Book Excerpt: Thanking & Blessing – The Sacred Art
Jay Marshall on joy and walking.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: What We Can Learn from Procrastination
An interesting article on procrastination, its causes and possible antidotes.