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Why Spiritual Practice is Essential in Crazy Times
Your spiritual practice is more essential now than ever before.
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Spiritualizing Democracy
Vigilance and skillful action are needed here and now to protect our democracy from those who would undermine it.
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Spiritual Misconceptions Have Consequences
Three spiritual concepts that are often misunderstood.
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Lessons from the Past
History tells us that things get better in time only if we make it so.
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Us and Them: The Eternal Division We Have to Transcend
Almost every weekend, my wife and I hike on a well-maintained trail abutting Los Angeles. The hikers we come across are as diverse as the passengers on a New York subway. We see fa…
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Empathy for the Detestable, Compassion for the Callous
Most deeply spiritual people, regardless of their ancestral religion or their chosen path, esteem human beings who exhibit certain qualities, such as empathy, compassion, lovingkin…
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It’s not “Islam,” It’s not “Religion,” It’s Fanaticism
The hideous massacre in Orlando on June 12 has been analyzed from a variety of angles: as a terrorism issue; a gun control issue; a mental health issue; an election campaign issue;…
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We Elect Coaches, But We're the Players
As the ubiquitous, exhausting and often disturbing election campaign trudges on, I am often reminded of something my high school classmate Artie used to say. We were sports f…Tags:
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Stuck on the Spiritual Spectrum
A dispute at a small evangelical college; the death of a Supreme Court Justice; the presidential election campaign—these and other recent events reminded me, yet again, that our re…
