Tag: spirituality
group name: intheloop
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August 21, 2006 12:30 AM EDT --
"Virginia City, NV, Sunday, April 21, 1996. Sawdust Corner Restaurant." Those words on a yellowing paper place mat and the poem scribbled below them caught my eye as they have so many times since . . . more
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December 05, 2006 02:28 PM EST --
For much of the country, it's the time of year for darkness and gloom. Many of us go to great lengths to fight the darkness, keeping our winter world warm and well-lit until spring rolls around . . . more
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March 28, 2008 11:29 AM EDT --
Exploring a New Humanism
I first met Greg Epstein, as it happens, at a fantastic conference pulled together by Eboo Patel's Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago. This was an energetic gathering . . . more
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July 03, 2008 04:50 PM EDT --
The Ethics of Eating
I like to say that I'm not an an optimist, but I am a person of hope. That is to say, I cultivate the virtue of hope in myself. Hope takes account of the enormity and darkness . . . more
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August 08, 2006 01:00 PM EDT --
Let us burst no bubbles
Keep them as content as we can
For they would be mad as hornets
If their calculations don't go as planned
Let them testify that God is great
For God is greater than we can . . . more
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August 03, 2007 11:21 AM EDT --
If we have an archive of Speaking of Faith "classic" programs, this is one of them. It is quite unlike anything else we've done, but we have broadcast it every winter for the past few years. . . . more
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May 22, 2008 05:25 PM EDT --
The Spirituality of Addiction and Recovery
In 1961, the renowned Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung wrote a now-famous letter to Bill Wilson , the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), describing . . . more
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September 30, 2007 01:56 AM EDT --
The Centers for Disease Control report that 1 in 150 children in the U.S. is now diagnosed somewhere on the spectrum of autism. In other words, this is a condition that affects many lives, many families. . . . more
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March 17, 2008 03:23 PM EDT --
Liberating the Founders
I've enjoyed Steven Waldman as a journalist and commentator through the last two election seasons because he refused to tolerate or perpetuate the culture wars that embittered . . . more
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May 04, 2007 11:22 AM EDT --
Up to now I have resisted interviewing Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins, who have coined best-selling battle cries like "the end of faith" and "the God delusion." They validly critique . . . more
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May 10, 2007 09:07 PM EDT --
Practicing homosexuals should not be permitted to preach in the church, because their lifestyle is clearly antithetical to God's Word. However, Jesus Christ never . . . more
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September 23, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859. We've come to imagine him as a godless naturalist and to see the publication of this book as a dramatic moment in history, one that created an . . . more
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December 13, 2007 06:54 AM EST --
Sometime last year I had in interesting informal conversation with Richard Mouw, the president of Fuller Theological Seminary, a respected center of Evangelical scholarship and learning. Mouw has spoken . . . more
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October 20, 2007 11:43 PM EDT --
Twenty-five years after The Secular City , Harvey Cox wrote some lines that help me frame what I hope to accomplish with my program "Beyond the Atheism-Religion Divide," and how I want to . . . more
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November 16, 2007 05:43 AM EST --
Our emerging national conversation about sustainability has a decidedly "eat your spinach" tone. We're steeling ourselves to enter the realm of sacrifice, and penance. But in all my conversations . . . more
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July 11, 2008 11:20 AM EDT --
A Sophisticated Theology Behind the Musical Tradition
I once met an American tourist who went to Siberia — and was peppered with questions about Joe Carter. Joe had made one of his riveting . . . more
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January 06, 2008 09:52 AM EST --
Diplomacy and Religion in the 21st Century
Douglas Johnston is a military and diplomatic strategist. Instead of approaching religion as a problem in global crises, he is modeling a new kind of diplomacy. . . . more
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October 05, 2007 09:49 AM EDT --
I first met Joan Chittister a decade ago. I'd heard many entertaining and admiring stories about Sr. Joan's passion and intelligence and wit. She would scribble notes for her next book or column . . . more
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January 15, 2008 09:04 PM EST --
Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth
Janna Levin is a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College with a special interest in the origins and shape of the universe. She's also the author . . . more
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June 23, 2008 02:50 PM EDT --
Sustaining Language, Sustaining Meaning
The word "sustainability" has entered our common vocabulary, a critical concept for the period ahead. But like every catchword, new and old, this . . . more
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