Addie Johnson on love as the foundation of other spiritual practices.
Category Archives: Spirituality
Book Excerpt: Creative Aging
Marjory Zoet Bankson's vision of work in the encore stage of life as being defined by an inner sense of satisfaction and rightness.
Book Review: Creative Aging
A vision of creative aging and generativity in the later years of life.
Book Review: A House for Hope
Ideas and practices to resurrect progressive religion in America.
Book Excerpt: A House for Hope
John A. Buehrens and Rebecca Ann Parker on celebrating progressive religious communities of commitment, hope, and renewal.
Book Review: Future Tense
A masterful awork on the mission of Jews and Judaism in this century.
Book Excerpt: Future Tense
Jonathan Sacks on Judaism as the voice of hope in the conversation of humankind.
Book Excerpt: Pebbles of Wisdom from Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz on how the spiritually mature person can bounce back from failures, setbacks, and crises.
Book Review: Pebbles of Wisdom from Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
Wisdom from Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's last 30 years of writings, lectures, and interviews on God, seeking, Torah, the trials of life, and more.
Book Review: Share This!
A helpful guide on ways to use the interactive features of social media to catalyze social change.
Book Review: This Is Getting Old
An enlightening collection of essays on the challenges of conscious aging from a Zen Buddhist perspective.
Book Excerpt: This Is Getting Old
Susan Moon on how conscious aging helps us deal with the fear of missing something and brings us back to the present moment.
Book Excerpt: Practice Random Acts of Kindness
Rabbi Harold Kushner on the value of performing acts of kindness.
Book Excerpt: Noticing the Divine
John R. Mabry on the importance of telling stories.
Book Excerpt: Chasing Joy
Edward Hays on the rich and colorful dimensions of the spiritual practice of joy.
Book Excerpt: Pavement
Lin Jensen on being a peace activist and resisting the temptation to be a person of right and wrong.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: What Pets Can Teach Us About Marriage
On improving our relationships by applying the approaches we take toward our animal companions.
Feature Film Review: Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Story of the turbulent intimate relationship between two formidable creative individuals in 1920s Paris.
Feature Film Review: The Karate Kid
A well-done and emotionally affecting remake of the popular 1984 film about a boy whose life is transformed by learning kung fu from a master teacher.
Book Excerpt: Speaking of Faith
Krista Tippett on how the passion for beauty is at the core of human religious experience.