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Book Review: The Way of the Rose

You might expect a book about the rosary and Marian apparitions to be written by strict Catholics. However, authors Clark Strand and Perdita Finn are a former Zen Buddhist monk and a feminist former teacher, respectively, and they were surprised to be called toward the rosary.

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Music

Music Review: Ghosteen

“With its frequently meandering melodies and wordy lyrics, Ghosteen is less an assembly of songs in the traditional sense than it is an unusually tuneful poetry reading.”

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Music Review: Thanks for the Dance

Thanks for the Dance is a quintessential mix of Leonard Cohen’s melancholy humor, sentimental insights, and lost-love laments, with a hint of social-political critique.

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Film

Film Review: Gift

There is a radical utopianism at the heart of Gift, but for its 90-minute running time, Robin McKenna’s documentary makes you believe such a world is possible. The film, inspi…
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Book Review: Joy Seeker by Shannon Kaiser

Fears, insecurities, and limiting beliefs impede our happiness and prevent us from living truly joyful lives. In Joy Seeker, author, speaker, writer and life coach Shannon Kaiser c…
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Film Review: Fantastic Fungi

Louie Schwartzberg’s documentary is a dreamy, informative, and hopeful dive into the world of mushrooms and fungi

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Film Review: The Sweet Requiem

The Sweet Requiem is an admirable, sometimes surprising look at the tragedy of displacement, both the geographic and the psychological kind.

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Book Review: Good Habits, Bad Habits

Habits are different from conscious decisions, so when we rely on conscious thought processes like goal setting to change behavior, we’re setting ourselves up for failure.

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Music Review: Bon Iver

Bon Iver completes its quarter of albums corresponding to the four seasons with a "contemplative mood befitting a group of songs that collectively represent autumn."

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Book Review: The Power of Heart

Reason and intellect are great, but when you feel like giving up, heart matters, according to Dr. Amy Bloch.

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The Highly Sensitive Man

"Falkenstein argues that highly sensitive men navigate a chasm between what is expected of them and who they really are that psychologists have only begun to explore."