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What’s in a Spiritual Name
When Shakespeare’s Juliet asserted that “a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet,” she likely got it wrong. At least, that’s what the devotees who adopt spiritual names eve…
Balancing the Brain Toward Joy
An Interview with Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.Twelve years ago, at 37, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist and spokeswoman for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Cen…
The Seismic Shift
A seismic shift is happening. The change that is underway is profound and will seem to most to be revolutionary. What is this shift? The historic paradigm that our self-worth comes…
Relax When Too Many Things Are Up in the Air
When life throws curve balls at Ryan Christensen, he juggles them — literally. A self-described depressed, obese teenager, Ryan practiced juggling while his parents’ marriage disso…
Do Dings and Divots Reveal Soul?
My mother died suddenly from a heart attack, and I can’t rid myself of the anger I feel toward her for that. I love her deeply, and I feel guilty about the anger. And I’m fearful t…
Teaching What Matters
When I was in graduate school, I was fascinated by a play by Eugene Ionesco called The -Lesson. In it a young woman studies for the total doctorate, but she has a problem. She can …
A Priest Finds His Other Religion
The word aikido combines three Japanese words that resonate with theology or spirituality. “Ai” means “joining/reconciling/harmony/love”; “ki” is “energy/power/-spirit”; and “do” i…
A Neuroscientist Explains how to Manifest with Metaphors
In literature, writers use metaphors to transfer information inherent in one context to another to infuse the target with an extra layer of meaning. For example, “Because you are m…
Renewing the Millennium Development Goals
The United Nations was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001. The Nobel Committee declared, “[Former Secretary-General] Kofi Annan had been preeminent in bringing new life to the o…
Sex and the Seminary
Did you know that there is a Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing?
