2009 September/October

Compassion

Latest Remodeling Tip: Install a Faraday Cage

For at least the past 35 years, scientists have debated the health effects of exposure to electromagnetic radiation. Does it cause cancer? Does it overexcite our wearied and worrie…

Try This Back-to-School Line Dance

At Naropa, the arts university “dedicated to advancing contemplative education” in Boulder, Colorado, students in the Master of Divinity program are anywhere from 20-something to 6…
Tags: Meditation

A Celebration of Unprotected Love

Last month we received this invitation from columnist Peggy La Cerra:Dear friends,Last Thursday, my beloved fur girl, Spooky, went into the wilds and never returned. She and her br…

Bring on the Pasta

LOW-CARB DIETS MAKE PEOPLE STUPIDA study from the psychology department at Tufts University showed that dieters who drastically reduced or eliminated carbohydrates from their meals…
Tags: Nutrition Diet

To Get an Organ, Agree to Give an Organ

Dave Undis is a retired insurance executive with a passion for helping people to live longer and the ability to look at hard numbers. He notes that 100,000 Americans need organ tra…

Rituals for Wastelands

"Pastures ranged over the rolling hills. Tall oak and beech woods lined both sides of the valley, and when sunlight suffused through them, they seemed as enchanted to Lisa as when she and her sister had played there as children."

Tags: Environment Nature

A Return to Bliss

When Sheila Cluff glides across the ice, she feels like she’s flying. Her mind, focused on the details of precise footwork and pretty hand movements, is free from the day’s stress.…

Transmogrifying the Gospels

As I was studying the Gospels for my latest book, Writing in the Sand, I came across the passage in Matthew where Jesus is telling his students (that’s the proper Greek term) how t…

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Reviews

Fierce Light

Directed by Velcrow RipperAlive Mind MediaDocumentary“Fierce Light was created to empower people,” says filmmaker Velcrow Ripper. “The philosophy that guides my work is the transfo…

The Living Matrix

The New Science of HealingDirected by Greg BeckerDocumentaryThe Living Matrix is an exciting and visually compelling glimpse into what scientists have begun to see as they look at …

Who Does She Think She Is?

Directed by Pamela T. Bolland Nancy C. KennedyMystic Artist Film ProductionsDocumentaryConsider these statistics from the film: Women make up 80 percent of art school classes but o…

The Power of Forgiveness

Directed by Martin DoblmeierJourney FilmsDocumentaryHorror and dismay have been evoked by the Holocaust, the execution-style slayings of Amish girls peacefully studying in their cl…

Tribal Music Suite

Journey of a PaiuteArvel BirdSinging Wolf RecordsThis neo-classical world music concerto for violin, Native American flute, drummers, and symphony orchestra is Arvel Bird’s passion…

Smokie Norful: Live

EMI GospelW. R. “Smokie” Norful, Jr., began picking out melodies on the piano at the age of two and — surprisingly, for the son of a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal tra…

Drive Time Rx

Listen De-stress and Be More Relaxed and AlertSteven HalpernInner Peace Music“One of the real-life challenges for many of us on a spiritual path is to remain mindful when driving, …

Love Holding Love

Wah!NuToneAs a student at Oberlin College and Conservatory, Wah! was introduced to African and Indian music, studied the tabla, and learned to play Indian raga on the violin. She a…

Green Revolution

Coming Together to Care for CreationBy Ben LoweInterVarsity Press, 2009, $15.00Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy and a leader in the worldwide movement to save our planet from …

Sacred Desire

Growing in Compassionate LivingBy Nancy K. Morrisonand Sally K. SeverinoTempleton Foundation Press, 2009, $21.95Current research, including that which led to the discovery of “mirr…

Living Beyond War

A Citizen’s GuideBy Winslow MyersOrbis, 2009, $16.00To those who say that the elimination of war is a naïve and unrealistic hope, Winslow Myers points out that what is really naïve…

Cloister Talks

Learning from My Friends the MonksBy Jon M. SweeneyBrazos Press, 2009, $12.99“I sit down with Father Ambrose to talk about love, to ask him about love. He rubs his hands together a…

Radical Forgiveness

By Antoinette BoscoOrbis Books, 2009, $16.00When Antoinette Bosco experienced the deep pain of losing a sensitive and gifted son to suicide, she found the strength to release her p…