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Category Archives: Spirituality
Book Review: A Mindful Way
An eight-week Mindfulness Course designed as a spiritual path to happiness, peace, and freedom.
Book Excerpt: Porch Talk
Philip Gulley on being content in life.
Book Excerpt: Laugh Your Way to Grace
A helpful and hopeful book on the importance of humor and laughter in the spiritual life.
Book Review: The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything
Shines a light on the importance of everyday spirituality, prayer, and contemplative action in the world.
Audio Review: Taoist Sexual Secrets
Achieving a fuller, more vibrant expression of your sexual energy.
Audio Review: Living from the Overflow
An examination of the far-reaches of the spiritual paradigm of plenitude.
Audio Review: Unconditional Confidence
A three-part method for dealing with fear and uncertainty.
Audio Review: Navigating Hope
Caroline Myss on hope as a key spiritual practice in these uncertain and perilous times.
Audio Review: Finding Beauty in a Broken World
A spoken-word abridgement of a 2008 book on the meaning of beauty as discovered in three personal experiences.
Book Excerpt: Mind in Comfort and Ease
His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the value of love, compassion, and kindness.
Book Excerpt: Emerging Heart
Beverly Lanzetta on global spirituality as a core of life that begins deep within one' soul.
Spiritual Practice Feature: Spiritual Practices for Hot Weather
Tips from sages and seers on how to deal with hot weather by connecting to it, staying warm and cool at the same time, seeing sweat as a sign of pleasure, welcoming the chance to slow down, and liking whatever weather we get.
Book Excerpt: God’s Echo
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso on seeing every place and moment as opportunities for revelation.
Book Excerpt: Holy Play
Kirk Byron Jones on envisioning God in new and imaginative ways.
Feature Film Review: Salt
An impressive action-thriller that pulls out all the stops.
Documentary Film Review: Countdown to Zero
An explosive and thought-provoking plea to abolish nuclear weapons before they abolish us, as President John F. Kennedy once stated.
Book Excerpt: Everyday Holiness
Spiritual Literacy Blog: Quieting Noisy Hospitals
Why hospitals are finally considering changes to lessen the noise pollution in these places for healing.
DVD Feature Film Review: Vincere
A visually sumptuous Italian drama about the shadow side of power-hungry leaders and lovers who tell themselves stories that have no resemblance to reality.