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Category Archives: Spirituality
Book Excerpt: Beginning Again
Mary C. Earle with suggestions for a rule of life for those with chronic or progressive illnesses.
Book Excerpt: Fabulous Friendship Festival
Sark on the joy and beauty of loving friendships.
Book Excerpt: Stepping Out of Self-Deception
Rodney Smith on letting go in order to live an authentic life.
Book Review: Stepping Out of Self-Deception
An exploration of the many different dimensions of emptiness and awakening in the Buddhist tradition.
Book Review: Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices
A refreshing Jewish examination of sexuality from many different perspectives.
Book Excerpt: Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices
Elliot N. Dorf and Danya Ruttenberg on how sexual relations challenge us to consider the needs and desires of another.
Book Review: The Meaning of Tea
An enchanting and wide-ranging look at the calming, healing, and transformative powers of tea.
Book Excerpt: The Meaning of Tea
Spiritual meanings to be discovered by drinking tea.
Book Review: Living a Charmed Life
A lively and uplifting collection of 50 essays to spark our zeal for nurturing ourselves.
Book Excerpt: Living a Charmed Life
Victoria Moran on restoring the lost art of chivalry to change the world one kind act at a time.
Book Review: Spiritual Formation
An excellent primer on the way of the heart and the path of spiritual formation within the Christian tradition.
Book Excerpt: Spiritual Formation
Henri J. M. Nouwen on how resentment can be replaced by the spiritual practice of gratitude.
Book Review: Good Character
A substantive assessment of adab as a comprehensive code of conduct for Muslims.
Book Review: In the Heart of the World
A handy compendium of devotional material and wisdom from Mother Teresa.
Book Excerpt: In the Heart of the World
Mother Teresa on how we draw closer to God when we practice true inner silence by listening, seeing, and sensing Him in everything.
Book Excerpt: Good Character
Gentleness as a virtue that describes a person who is peaceful, slow to anger, and quick to forgive.
Book Excerpt: Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
Martin Buber with a teaching story about the riches that ensue from faith in a loving God.
Book Review: The World Has Changed
Top-notch interviews with Alice Walker from 1973-2009 on her life, her literary output, and her activism.
Book Excerpt: The World Has Changed
Alice Walker on how our spiritual connections with clothing, objects, and our ancestors deserves our attention.