"I'm spiritual, but not religious."
It's not a new sentiment, but these days it certainly seems to be a widespread one. Depending on whom you believe, anywhere from 10 percent to 33 percent of Americans describe themselves as SBNR -- persons for whom a self-directed spirituality matters, but engagement with...
0 Comments | Posted August 3, 2011 | 10:43 AM
The youngest member of my family is our one-year-old cat, Margery. She is a most inquisitive creature (my wife thinks she has attention deficit disorder). Curiosity may have killed the proverbial cat, but this feline hasn't been deterred. She gets into everything -- to the point where my wife and...
0 Comments | Posted February 18, 2011 | 8:26 PM
What is mysticism? Who are the great mystics, and what wisdom do they have to share with us today? How is mysticism related to religion and spirituality, and yet how does it speak to a universal truth that transcends dogma? Questions like these were explored in a great, but often...
0 Comments | Posted December 17, 2010 | 6:45 PM
Michael Apted's motion picture version of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a movie that deserves to be seen at least twice -- especially by fans of the book.
After I saw the film once, I deemed it "okay," lamenting every instance in which the screenplay departed from C....
0 Comments | Posted December 1, 2011 | 12:10 PM