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Archive for the ‘Spirituality’ Category

Feature Film Review: Green Zone

Friday, March 12th, 2010

A slam-bang thriller set in Iraq in 2003 which vividly illustrates that truth is the first casualty of war.

Feature Film Review: The Exploding Girl

Friday, March 12th, 2010

An impressive romantic drama set in New York City about a young woman’s sudden plunge into loneliness and what she learns from this melancholy emotion.

Feature Film Review: Remember Me

Friday, March 12th, 2010

A romantic drama about the tender bloom of love in a garden of death, grief, and great loss.

Book Excerpt: Fresh Bread and Other Stories of Spiritual Nourishment

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Joyce Rupp’s litany of God’s generosity.

Book Excerpt: Sum

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

David Eagleman on how we limit our lives by eschewing the unfamiliar and only staying within a small circle of friends.

Book Review: Saving Jesus from the Church

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Calls for a radical change in churches by putting the faithful on the path of Jesus and seeing Christianity as compassion, not condemnation.

Book Review: Final Journeys

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Wise advice on death, dying, and grief from a hospice nurse who has worked with patients and their loved ones since 1981.

Book Review: The Second Book of the Tao

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Translations and audacious interpretations of Lao-tzu’s disciple Chuang-tzu and Confucius’s grandson Tzu-Ssu.

Book Review: Acedia & Me

Monday, March 8th, 2010

An incisive and edifying memoir and meditation on acedia, a debilitating condition of the soul.

Book Review: The Three Marriages

Monday, March 8th, 2010

An engaging and imaginative examination of the triumphs and tragedies of human belonging.

Book Review: Sum

Monday, March 8th, 2010

A wildly imaginative collection of tales about possible afterlives.

Book Review: What Matters Most

Monday, March 8th, 2010

A Jungian interpretation of the meaning of life and the importance of soul, imagination, wonder, and mystery.

Book Review: The Green Bible

Monday, March 8th, 2010

A green version of the Bible with helpful resources on creation care.

Book Excerpt: Moments In Between

Monday, March 8th, 2010

David Kundtz on being open to life and its realities.

Book Excerpt: Grace on the Go

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Barbara Bartocci on prayer opportunities in daily tasks.

Book Review: The Animal Manifesto

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

A passionate and convincing description of the plight of animals and why we need to treat them with more compassion.

Book Excerpt: The Animal Manifesto

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Marc Bekoff’s plea to make kindness and compassion the basis for our interactions with animals.

Book Review: Seek God Everywhere

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Cogent and creative commentary on the meanings of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.

Book Excerpt: Seek God Everywhere

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Anthony de Mello on how contemplation and action go together in the spiritual life.

Book Review: The Forgiveness Solution

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

An impressive and multidimensional collection of exercises and practices to nurture forgiveness in us.