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Category Archives: Spirituality
Feature Film Review: Get Low
One of the Best Films of 2010 with its authentic, telling, and moving depiction of the difficulty of forgiving ourselves.
Feature Film Review: Smash His Camera
A robust and snappy documentary about Ron Galella, the controversial photographer of America's superstars and celebrities.
Feature Film Review: The Extra Man
A wonderfully quirky character-driven drama about friendship, sexual desire, and being a true gentleman.
Feature Film Review: The Dry Land
A moving drama about an Iraq war veteran suffering from PTSD and the soul loss he experiences.
Feature Film Review: Dinner for Schmucks
A very funny comedy that also contains some insights on the spiritual exercise of dealing with difficult people.
Documentary Film Review: Enemies of the People
An important ethical documentary about the Cambodian genocide, a major Khmer Rouge leader, and some of the farmers who followed orders and killed hundreds of men, women, and children.
Book Excerpt: The Wisdom of Wilderness
Gerald G. May on understanding the power of fear.
Book Excerpt: A Mindful Way
Jeanie Seward-Magee's adaptation of Thich Nhat Hanh's Beginning Again ritual used at Plum Village to establish harmony and reconciliation within the community.
Book Review: The Big Book of Christian Mysticism
A remarkable overview of the riches, wisdom, paradoxes, practices, and major figures in Christian mysticism.
Book Excerpt: The Big Book of Christian Mysticism
Carl McColman on Christian mysticism as a relationship with God that goes beyond logic, reason, and all categories of thought.
Book Review: Let Go Now
Meditations on the art of detachment as a tool for recovery and personal transformation.
Book Excerpt: Let Go Now
Karen Casey on detachment as the art of refusing to allow our interactions with others to determine our behavior.
Book Excerpt: The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything
James Martin on feeling fully alive as one of the essential goals of spirituality.
DVD Feature Film Review: The Secret of the Grain
A robust drama about and old man with a dream who is helped by a smart teenager and his large Franco-Arab family.
Book Review: Intimacy with God
A precise and enlightening overview of Centering Prayer.
Book Excerpt: Intimacy with God
Thomas Keating on Divine energy always flowing in and through us as a sign of the Creator's presence.
Book Excerpt: A Little Book of Thank Yous
Addie Johnson on how gratitude enriches the good times and sustains us in bad times.
Book Review: The Happiness Project
Lively observations, insights, and practices from a year-long exploration of happiness and its impact on our lives.
Book Excerpt: The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin on enthusiasm as a form of social courage in our contentious popular culture where everyone is judgmental.