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Teen's Garden Will Coax the Hallelujah From Your Lips
I've always felt closest to God, or whomever you perceive God to be, when I'm among nature's splendor. And always, I've gained a powerful understanding of spirituality when I'm immersed in landscapes,...
View ArticleChurch, Social Media and Chautauqua
I've been invited by the Department of Religion at Chautauqua Institution to lecture next week on the theme "Digital Identity." In addition to sharing some of the theological reflection emerging from...
View ArticleMy Wound Is Deep, but Clean
The late William Sloane Coffin, former Senior Minister at The Riverside Church in the City of New York, preached a sermon entitled, "Alex's Death" the Sunday after his son, Alex, died in a car...
View ArticleMake Bread for Your Table, Make Bread for Your Gods
It was the sound of the masa moving back and forth across my grandma's hands that woke me in the mornings. She slapped the dough in rhythm before turning the flattened ball onto the dusted counter-top,...
View ArticleThe Futility of Searching for Your Life Purpose
I hate when people talk about finding their "life purpose." I meet so many people who are letting life pass them by as they search for this elusive "destiny." So many people think that unless their...
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Doing The 116-Floor-High Edge Walk Atop Toronto's CN Tower
I am walking towards the 1,168-foot CN Tower in Toronto on my way to do the Edge Walk a hands-free circumnavigation along the ledge of Canada's highest building, 116 stories above the city. This is the...
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'Yoga Retreat' Is A New Facebook Game In Which You Practice And Teach Yoga On...
There is a new game on Facebook -- a real, actual game that you can play right now on your computer -- called "Yoga Retreat." In the game (which is real) you play a yoga instructor who owns a remote...
View ArticleTeaching the Spirit in a Secular Age
It's a big challenge being a spiritual teacher in a secular culture. What could be more disconcerting than being a religious authority in a world where there is no consensus about whether God actually...
View ArticleNets of Being: Alex Grey's Visionary Art
Among the many talented visionary artists of the global spiritual counterculture, one name rises to the top of nearly every list: Alex Grey. He and his wife Allyson (who is also a painter) relentlessly...
View ArticleAre You Good At Hammocks?
When we lived in Russia many years ago, we rented some rooms in a dacha, an old wooden house in a village outside Moscow. We would spend weekends there, doing what you do at the dacha: helping our...
View ArticleA Mother's Letter to Her Daughter on "Having it All"
I am a mother of a daughter....when I was raising my daughter and my son, it was in that period when we were breaking glass ceilings and challenging and stretching the conventional roles of women.We...
View ArticleDe-Clutter Your Life!
Have you seen the late George Carlin's riff on "stuff"? If you haven't, it is brilliant and hilarious, and it exemplifies so much of what I believe about the over-filled, over-scheduled, over-thought,...
View ArticleNavigating by Heart: Stop, Look and Listen
Do you recall those classic railroad crossing signs with a crossbar that reads "Stop, Look and Listen"? It's great advice at every crossing when learning to navigate by heart. Recently I was driving in...
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What's Your Passion?
By Amy Spencer One evening, my husband, Gus, came home, saw me sitting in the dark, and said, "What's with the lights?" You see, that afternoon, I’d started editing the videos I'd taken over a weekend...
View ArticleDon't Let Your Amygdala Ruin Your Day (And Waste Your Time)
Ever notice how aggravated you get when you go to check out at the grocery store, and... there's a line? And what about how even more aggravated you feel when you realize that you're standing in the...
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