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Saying Prayer Is the Answer to Violence Is Offensive — Here’s Why
You’ll hear it every time something tragic happens. School shooting? Check. Supermarket massacre by a vicious racist? Check. Mass killing spree during a July 4th celebration? Absolutely. Every time,...
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A River Runs Through Us
Raised a Catholic, I repeated the Lord’s Prayer every Sunday at mass. One night, when I was a young teen, I lay awake with a question on my mind: What did all those words in the prayer really mean?...
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Can the Universe Hear What AI Wants to Manifest?
On the last day of 2022, I did laundry. In between house chores, I can’t help but think of what is coming in 2023. I’m an overthinker. I want to accomplish more in 2023. I want to continue writing,...
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Does Prayer Really Heal People?
Seeing NFL player Damar Hamlin suddenly collapse on live TV after a seemingly routine tackle was a moment those of us who were watching will never forget. The dread was palpable, the urgency,...
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Peace Meditation
I just returned from St. Paul, MN, where I had the pleasure of speaking with the Board of World Citizen (a nonprofit organization for everyone who values a safe and respectful world) about peace....
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Book Review: How Spirituality and Science Can Coexist
April 21, 2023 by Elizabeth Svoboda When Alan Lightman was nine years old, he had a mystical vision that upended his ideas about life and the universe. “I had the sensation of seeing my entire life,...
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How to Know if You Have the Wrong Religion
In organized religion, one of the central questions has always been and continues to be Who has it right? For millennia, billions and billions of human beings spanning the planet have individually and...
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28 Short and Powerful Prayers for Health and Wellness
Your Loving Embrace Introduction Dear Dads, today I invite you on a joyful adventure towards better health, both physically and mentally. Here at Daddy Simply we focus on balance between wellness,...
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Compassion as an Act of Spiritual Growth
It’s hard for me to imagine a gritty Christian mysticism without compassion. Compassion, an intrinsic human quality, is the foundation for much of human life. It goes beyond mere sympathy, as it...
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I Hate My Body…I Love My Body!
Jim Herbert Last week on Friday as I was leaving the health club after a good workout, I noticed how unusually tired my legs were feeling. The locker room of this particular health club happens to be...
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Unlock Gratitude: 5 Ways to Show Appreciation to God Everyday
Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace. ~ Thomas Merton Many people speak about being grateful on a daily basis. However, many people don’t know to whom the...
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Rep. Mike Johnson Isn’t Scary
The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, in the United States isn’t scary. He’s genial. That’s the selling point. It is how to sell Dominionism to the public in a palatable trough. The previous...
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April Affirmations, Part 1
Words To Inspire, Words To Soothe Somewhere between prayer and manifestation are affirmations, an often overlooked method to help right a wayward mind. Affirmations exist at the intersection of the...
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April Affirmations, Part 2
Words To Inspire, Words To Soothe Somewhere between prayer and manifestation are affirmations, an often overlooked method to help right a wayward mind. Affirmations exist at the intersection between...
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Zipped in the Pod!
Green is my favorite color. I associate it with sacred space—space for transformation to occur; space to find a new direction. When people ask me to pray for them or their loved ones, I explain that...
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Do Not Pray This Prayer!
Towards the end of his life, C.S. Lewis married an American writer named Joy Davidman. Sadly, Joy Davidman contracted terminal bone cancer and passed away just four years later. At one point during...
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My Chemo Marathon
Yesterday was my first day of chemo since mid-October. Fortunately, my cancer markers have been very stable and my February PET scan showed some small growths were becoming still smaller and only one...
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Eating for Cancer
I woke up this morning craving pizza. The thing is, I have cancer. In order to beat it, I have to control what I eat. Once upon a time, I’d have ordered my favorite type and Mom and I would have...
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Are You Experiencing ‘Spiritual Bankruptcy?’
Imagine standing on the precipice of despair, questioning the very worth of your existence. As a rabbi and founder of a recovery nonprofit, I still meet people precisely at these critical...
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An Old House of Prayer Becomes Community’s Art Space
By Ilana Newman Before Madeleine Ahlborn bought a church, the most expensive thing she owned was a 2002 Toyota 4Runner with 340,000 miles on it. Now, Ahlborn is the founder of The Church Project, a...
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