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Category Archives: Spirituality
Book Excerpt: Healing Breath
Ruben L. F. Habito on a genuinely integral and healing spirituality.
Book Excerpt: Finding Water
Julia Cameron on cultivating faith to sustain one's creativity.
Naming the Days Feature: Birthday of G. K. Chesterton
Quotes to take to heart on the birthday of one of the most jovial and brilliant apologists for the Christian faith.
Book Excerpt: Kabbalah
Tamar Frankiel on the meaning of divinization in Jewish mysticism.
Book Excerpt: Vivekananda, World Teacher
Swami Adiswarananda on all peoples being a part of the Divine.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: The Elders Speak
An interview with Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and Mary Robinson, members of the Elders, an independent group of global leaders.
Feature Film Review: Mademoiselle Chambon
An exquisite and well-acted French film about an extramarital romance which opens two lovers to fresh territory inside themselves they never explored before.
Feature Film Review: The Father of My Children
An intelligent and beautifully acted French film about work, death, grief, and finding one's way back to life.
Book Excerpt: Christianity for the Rest of Us
Diana Butler Bass on the practice of hospitality in Christian literature.
Book Excerpt: At the Edge of Our Longing
James Conlon on grace happening when we realize the profound connection between our aspirations for life and the concrete requirements for living.
DVD Feature Film Review: For My Father
Probes the greatest miracle of all: the difficult process of turning enemies into friends.
DVD Feature Film Review: Troubled Water
A poignant spiritual film about guilt, forgiveness, and compassion that enables us to empathize with both an ex-con struggling to make a new life for himself and the mother of the boy he was convicted of murdering.
DVD Documentary Film Review: Sunrise/Sunset
A creative documentary charting an ordinary day in the life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the thoughtful, devotional, and tireless spiritual leader of the Tibetan people.
DVD Feature Film Review: Owl and the Sparrow
An enchanting story of a homeless girl on the streets of Saigon who has a big heart and a yearning to be accepted for who she is.
DVD Documentary Film Review: Phyllis and Harold
A creative and unsettling documentary that reveals how yearning can be both a burden and a blessing to those caught in its grasp.
DVD Feature Film Review: Dear John
An engaging romantic love drama that morphs into a deeper and richer consideration of the truly transformative power of love.
Book Excerpt: Unlearning Back to God
Mark Nepo on sharing the same river and the earth together.
Book Excerpt: Centuries of Holiness
Richard Valantasis on the importance of including playfulness in structuring a spiritual manner of living.
Naming the Days Feature: Pentecost: Celebrating the Gifts of the Spirit
Ways to celebrate Pentecost, the Christian holiday marking the coming of the Holy Spirit, with special rituals, meals, and lots of red things.