That's the question posed by Beliefnet.com founder Steve Waldman on (no kidding) his Facebook status this morning. Which reminded me of a traditional Jewish story about a boy, a whistle and a prayer. Old-school tweeting, you might say. Read a...
The University of North Texas in Denton presents an interfaith panel discussion at 6 p.m. April 21 (next Tuesday) on how the Abrahamic faiths view the relationship between spirituality and justice. The panelists include a rabbi, a campus minister, and...
On a day when our company has announced yet another round of layoffs, it was good to stumble onto this prayer, from Thomas Merton's classic book of meditations, Thoughts in Solitude. It is, as Spirituality & Practice puts it, "a...
Garishly, exuberantly, excessively, with trees, lights, ornaments, Santas, nutcrackers, crowded stores, and holiday music everywhere -- just not the slightest hint of religious expression or spiritual meaning. So writes David Rocks, senior editor for global news at BusinessWeek, who's in...
The star of "Foxy Brown" in the early 1970s, "Jackie Brown" in the late '90s, and, now on the Hallmark Channel, a TV movie called "Ladies of the House," talks to Beliefnet about her long career, her influences as a...
"Bruce Springsteen can be deeply spiritual to me. Lou Reed's record 'Magic and Loss' is profoundly spiritual. Annie Lennox's song 'Why' is profoundly spiritual to me.... That word 'spiritual' just means that it resonates with the spirit. And that could...
Adelle M. Banks of Religion News Service reports that some evangelicals are worried about the influence of Oprah Winfrey's unorthodox spirituailty on her vast audience. They're teaming up in various ways to warn that Oprah doesn't reflect what one...
The psilocybin mushroom was a tripper's choice back in the 1960s. Actually, it was the herbal head-trip drug used by millennia of shamans long before the psychedelic '60s. It was supposed to help get the mystically inclined into the right...
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