Book Review: All That We Share
A bold and imaginative call for a major paradigm shift from the market system to the commons where sharing and caring are the operative ideals.
Book Excerpt: The Way of Mary
Mary Ford-Grabowsky's exercise to feel gratitude for people who helped you and people you helped.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: Interview with Matthieu Ricard
An interview with Buddhist teacher Matthieu Ricard on the skill of happiness, meditation, generosity, mind training, intention, and spiritual practice.
Documentary Film Review: Carbon Nation
A documentary with a varied group of Americans talking about solutions to the very-real crisis of climate change.
Feature Film Review: Cedar Rapids
A rollicking comedy about a sheltered and insecure 34-year-old Midwestern insurance agent whose life is transformed at an annual convention.
Book Excerpt: Conversations on Religion
Karen Armstrong on love or the Golden Rule (in a book edited by Mick Gordon and Chris Wilkinson).
Documentary Film Review: Certifiably Jonathan
A documentary about the elderly comedian Jonathan Winters and his quest to have his paintings exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art.
Book Excerpt: Light Comes Through
Dzigar Kongtrul on connection through indebtedness, leaving no room for indifference.
Newsletter: The Grandmother Who Refused to Fear
Book Excerpt: I Love Dirt!
Jennifer Ward with an activity for children to learn about their senses in nature.
Spiritual Literacy Blog: How Meditation May Change the Mind
Scientific findings on how meditation impacts the brain by increasing memory, decreasing stress, and encouraging empathy.
Feature Film Review: The Other Woman
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Main Practice: love
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Keywords: marriage, parenting, grief, death, relationships,
Title: The Other Woman
Director: Don Roos
IFC Films
R - sexual content, language 02/11
Poignant portrait of a mother dealing with her grief over the death of her infant daughter and struggling with the need to wall herself off from those closest to her.
Book Excerpt: God Is No Laughing Matter
Julia Cameron on experiencing kindness all around.
Book Excerpt: Seeds of Faith
Jeremy Langford's practice of solitude for a devotional life.
Book Excerpt: The Happiness Trap
Spiritual Literacy Blog: A Golden Age of Foreign Films, Mostly Unseen
Practicing openness through backing and regular viewing of foreign language films.
DVD Feature Film Review: Skin
A powerful and poignant drama set in South Africa about the toxins of racial hatred and the terrible after-effects of the dangerous and destructive passion of zeal.
DVD Feature Film Review: Night Catches Us
A bittersweet drama set in 1976 about two African-Americans in Philadelphia forced to come to terms with the ghosts of their past.
DVD Feature Film Review: Welcome to the Rileys
A character-driven movie about breaking out of grief, loss, and isolation through the power of love