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River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey
Sister Helen Prejean is famous for her book Dead Man Walking. In this volume, she looks back on her childhood in Baton Rouge and her early career.
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The Ungrateful Refugee
"In an Oklahoma church, a woman condescendingly told her, 'You came for a better life.' Nayeri writes, 'I thought I’d pass out—a better life? In Isfahan, we had yellow spray roses, a pool. A glass enclosure shot up through our living room, and inside that was a tree … life in Iran was a fairytale.'”
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Book Review: What Does it Feel Like to Die?
“Maybe if we thought of dying as the last stage of life rather than merely an ending, we’d be more likely to see it as organic to human development,” writes author Jennie…
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Book Review: The Nocturnal Brain
This book dives into the world of severe and rare sleep disorders. It might make you realize how lucky you are to sleep well at night.
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Music Review: Ram Dass
An album called Ram Dass celebrates Ram Dass, but with some unexpected twists.
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Book Review: Heal Yourself with Journaling Power by Mari L. McCarthy
"Providing focus areas for readers’ journaling paths to wellness, the book also features poignant personal stories on how real individuals found healing and growth through writing."
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Music Review: Bloom
Areni Agabian fuses unusual influences to create an album that is sparse, spacious, and full of light.
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Film Review: Becoming Nobody
This film adds another chapter to the Ram Dass story through archival footage and an extensive interview with the filmmaker.
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Book Review: Spiritual Rebel
"Bowen is adept at taking complex ideas from a variety of ancient and modern sources and boiling them down. By necessity, things get oversimplified in the process, but she offers plenty of resources for further study throughout the body of the book. These 'ideas for cultivating spiritual moments' include an eclectic array of practices for each day of the week for a total of three weeks."
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Book Review: Walking
The act of walking is the most human thing we can do. Recover your appreciation for walking in this insightful book.
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Book Review: Holy Envy
"Contrary to popular assumption, Taylor argues, all religions are not alike. They peer at humans from different vantages, and thus propose different solutions to problems. Exploring this with her students, many of whom are evangelical Christians, showed Taylor that her true calling is to find bridges between her own faith and that of others."
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Book Review: To Stop a Warlord
The author recounts the pursuit of Joseph Kony, a brutal warlord whose guerilla group killed more than 100,000 people. She also writes about balancing her activism against Kony with her own family life.
