Even though Obama is not the progressive that many supposed he was, he is a man devoted to finding the true path among alternatives and as such has, I believe, earned the trust of most Americans.
Dimitri Hamlin | Posted 05.14.2012
It's a good thing that, when push comes to shove, we're really not rugged individualists. I'm thinking that it's almost time for us to accept who we are.
Posted 02.15.2012
David LaChapelle bridges commercial, fashion and high art photography with his hyper-saturated, juicy images and his newest exhibition hits just in ti...
Todd Brewster | Posted 04.01.2012
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia offered this advice about our political process: if you do not like the rash of intensely negative campaign commercials on television this year, the ones made possible by the court's 2010 decision in Citizens United, then turn off the television.
Richard Geldard | Posted 12.14.2011
Some years ago now the brilliant physicist David Bohm, who studied with Einstein, had this to say about human thought: Thought doesn't know it is doi...
Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.17.2011
Good professors know that discussing nature in the confines of a classroom is not likely to stir the soul, no matter how enlightening the lesson. What awakens, they realize, is experience. Getting hands dirty. Immersion.
Richard Geldard | Posted 09.14.2011
Here is the crux: Moral nature is lost in the way the Church has evolved. It is the past we are to worship, not anything living.
Jamie Stiehm | Posted 07.27.2011
Suddenly I heard it: the Quaker in Oprah. The emphasis on a light inside each of us is the central Quaker concept of the way God works. Oprah's theology in a kind of a mass media sermon seemed to be a fresh way of putting those things.
guardian.co.uk | Posted 07.26.2011
Good news that the beautiful Kate Moss is joining the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge at No 3, The Grove, Highgate, London. Coleridge first came to live ...
Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.17.2011
Okay, so it feels good to say "all is one" in the yoga studio. But during the other hours of the day, aren't we all behaving as if it's you versus me, in a dog-eat-dog world?
Richard Geldard | Posted 11.17.2011
All of us can look at our lives and count the times we thought we had made a sacrifice -- that is, giving up our personal desires to meet the needs of others.
Scott Perlo | Posted 05.25.2011
Central to human greatness is our capacity to carry two ideas in tension. Enough with the idea that religion and spirituality are exclusive: Let us fill ourselves with both.
Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.25.2011
It was one year ago today -- January 27, 2010 -- that Howard Zinn died at the age of 85.
Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011
Last week, I wrote a Foreword for a friend's new book entitled The Freak Factor. It's a great look at the incredible, outrageous, freakishly wonderful...
Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama predicts the American-India relationship would be "one of the defining partnerships of the twenty-first century." No doubt. But our two nations have already been trading ideas for over two centuries.
John Seed | Posted 04.11.2012
One of the values she seems to have absorbed from Cezanne is that there is an inherent abstract order to be gleaned from nature.
The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Last week, environmentalists and food advocates warily welcomed the news that Walmart plans to expand its ...
Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Do conservative Christian clergy think so little of their flock as to fear that they'll convert to Hinduism because they chant some Sanskrit mantras, or say "Namaste," or hear some tidbits of Vedic philosophy while stretching?
Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011
Our thoughts are too small. And as a result, our actions are too small. Most of us have our typical thoughts, imaginations, and decisions produced and...
Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011
The powerful forces of celebrity and popular culture have thrust India's Vedic heritage into the spotlight. All the media attention inspires some to cynicism and others to a genuine spiritual enquiry.
Richard Geldard | Posted 05.25.2011
Ralph Waldo Emerson has been our national conscience for over 150 years. His fundamental recommendation to us is this: before you step out into the world to act, find out who and what you are first.
Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011
A newt is a slimy amphibian with an uncanny ability to reinvent itself by regenerating limbs. Living up to his name, Newt Gingrich has metamorphosed from disgraced former House Speaker to a preeminent position on the Right.
Richard Geldard | Posted 05.25.2011
Mr Beck has said that God has given him a plan for America and, presumably the rest of the world as well. How, we wonder, did this so-called 'plan' arrive to his attention?
Posted 05.25.2011
This Land Is Your Land David Biespiel Poetry Magazine In the squares of the city--in the shadow of the steeple Near the relief office--I see my peopl...
Christopher Carduff | Posted 05.25.2011
"The heart of fandom," John Updike once wrote, "is identification": that's my team at the top of the division, those are my guys chasing the pennant, and c'mon, let's face it, we're the best.
Richard Geldard | Posted 05.31.2012