Feed Your Faith Not Your Fear
Fear is the most debilitating emotion there is and every one of us can live a life without fear. Majority of people are in fear of being late, losing their jobs, paying their bills, getting sick and...
View ArticleYour Time Is Limited
Many do live by other people's thinking, conditioned truths, ideas and beliefs learned from family and culture. Conditioning is never truth -- no matter how you dress it up, present it, or live it, its...
View ArticleEvery 25 Seconds
Summary Neal Scott may die in prison. A 49-year-old Black man from New Orleans, Neal had cycled in and out of prison for drug possession over a number of years. He said he was never offered treatment...
View ArticleFlare Up, Let Your Life Sing
On May 9, 2015, Valarie Kaur delivered the 100th commencement address at the College of Saint Benedict, a Catholic liberal arts college for women. Kaur is the first commencement speaker of the Sikh...
View Article"God is Mercy" - Meditations for the Way of the Cross (Archdiocese of Sydney)
(Source: Archdiocese of Sydney) Catholic Communications, Sydney Archdiocese, 24 Mar 2016 Large crowds will gather for the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum On Good Friday evening, Pope Francis will...
View ArticleThe Stacks: How the Grateful Dead Became Immortal
Over the 4th of July weekend, the Grateful Dead culminate 50 years of performing with a series of final concerts. Here’s a great portrait of the band in its heyday. On July 9, 1995 at Soldier Field in...
View ArticleThe Teaching of St. John Cassian on the Eucharist (Moscow Patriarchate)
(Source: Moscow Patriarchate) Share the post 'The Teaching of St. John Cassian on the Eucharist' Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the...
View ArticleChats with Ross Lynch, 311's Nick Hexum and Ben Lee, Plus Saint Asonia,...
A Conversation with R5's Ross Lynch Mike Ragogna: Hey Ross, how's going? Ross Lynch: I'm good, just on tour, living it up! [laughs] MR: So the Lynch gang is touring behind its new #1 album, Sometime...
View ArticleChats With Ross Lynch, 311's Nick Hexum and Ben Lee, Plus Patternist and Kat...
A Conversation with R5's Ross Lynch Mike Ragogna: Hey Ross, how's going? Ross Lynch: I'm good, just on tour, living it up! [laughs] MR: So the Lynch gang is touring behind its new #1 album, Sometime...
View ArticleReintroducing Bob Hillman, Chats with Peter Case, Maia Sharp and Ben Caplan,...
ALPHANAUT'S "UNNECESSARY SOLDIER" According to Mark Alan, aka Alphanaut... "The term 'Unnecessary Soldier' comes from Thomas Jefferson's vision for keeping military costs controlled in the US by...
View ArticleRead The Best July Fourth Oration Ever Given
In 1852, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered what could be considered the best July Fourth oration ever given. In an address to the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester, New York, he...
View ArticleBreaking the Fear Factor
By Peter Koenig August 24, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - We are living in a (western) world dominated by neoliberal dictators, criminals and crooks. And many of us, impregnated with the human...
View ArticleCreative Courage for Young Hearts: 15 Emboldening Picture Books Celebrating...
UPDATE: Also see other recently added picture-book biographies of Louise Bourgeois, Virginia Woolf, Galileo, Nellie Bly, Paul Erdos, Mary Lou Williams, and Paul Gauguin. Margaret Mead extolled the...
View ArticleWho is Hillary Clinton?
(CNN)A former first lady, senator, and secretary of state, Hillary Clinton has lived in the public eye for parts of five decades, emerging now as the first woman to be the presidential nominee of a...
View ArticleManchester United 2-2 Liverpool: the Class of 92, Spice Boys and Cantona’s...
It was a time when Oasis and Blur were making Britannia cool and United’s kids were beginning to bloom. The Spice Boys found the Liverpool groove but, back in October 1995, two sets of talented players...
View ArticleWhat Does This Ancient Personality Test Say About You?
By: Shira Atkins "Spiritual development is a long and arduous journey, an adventure through strange lands full of surprises, joy, beauty, difficulties, and even dangers." -Roberto Assagioli Across...
View Article‘UK was groomed’: Irish writers throw book at Brexit
In an EU referendum campaign marked by mendacity, some of the pithiest truths have been uttered by writers. “If your head says Remain but your heart says Leave, remember that one is specifically...
View ArticleISIS, Islam And Obama: Understanding The Threat To The Free World [Special...
President Obama would have us believe Islam is truly the Religion of Peace. He condemned ISIS as completely un-Islamic when he spoke about their beheading of American journalist James Foley, before...
View ArticleThe Church in a digital world: communicating the Good News, sharing the gift...
(Source: Australian Catholic Bishops Conference) Address by Archbishop Celli at the Australian Catholic Communications Congress Photos by Fiona Basile, Media & Communications Office, Catholic...
View ArticleThe Best Art, Design, and Photography Books of 2014
After the year’s most intelligent and imaginative children’s books, best science books, and most stimulating reads on psychology and philosophy, here are my favorite art, design, and photography books,...
View ArticleDawn of the Post-Contemporary
In September, I experienced a landmark in my life as an artist: the opening of a room in a museum in which a painting of mine is permanently installed. The painting is Day, my first painting of Leah, a...
View ArticleI polled 1,500 people about their best relationship advice — and the same...
I sent out the call the week before my wedding: Anyone who has been married for 10+ years and is still happy in their relationship, what lessons would you pass down to others if you could? Hey, guess...
View ArticlePress Releases: Remarks at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public...
(Source: US Department of State) MR LEEBRON: Good evening, and welcome to this wonderful venue at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. We are thrilled to be hosting such a remarkable event...
View ArticleIs America Any Safer?
Fifteen years ago this September 11, 19 terrorists, using four jetliners as guided missiles, killed 2,977 people—and enveloped the country in fear. It was the first sustained attack on American soil...
View ArticleMy President Was Black
“They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby I. “Love Will Make You Do Wrong” In the waning days of...
View Article2015’s Magnificent 7: People Who Championed, Changed & Challenged Us
December 24 2015, 2:27 PM ET Share this article: 2015 was a year of many things. Luckily, “inspiring” was one of them. Amid the injustices, tragedies and foolery that crowded our news headlines and...
View ArticleAuthors and critics select their best books of the year
WELCOME to our annual Books of the Year, in which writers and critics share their favourite reads of 2014. As always, I did not restrict the contributors to books published this year, though most of...
View ArticleOde to the Harvest Music Festival: Re-defining “fun” once and for all
"If you're having half as much fun as we're having, then we're having twice as much fun as you." - Ben Kaufmann (quoting Monty Python) Then he heartily boasted something along the lines of “it’s just...
View ArticleBring on the Crackup: Hoping for a Trump–Sanders Election
As I write this, in mid-late March 2016, things are generally going the way that I have hoped for–but of course this sort of analysis is in danger of being overtaken by events at any moment. Still, I...
View ArticlePresident Duterte of the Philippines for Dummies
Manila and Davao — When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ascended to power in 1999, almost no one in the West, in Asia and even in most of the Latin American countries knew much about his new militant...
View ArticleThe Stacks: Grateful Dead I Have Known
The Kentucky bard Ed McClanahan once lived in California, where among various endeavors he played Boswell to the Grateful Dead. Here is his timeless report. The terrific novelist Jennifer Egan grew up...
View ArticleWhere Doubt Is Faith and the Sign Is Spirit. Sarah Charlesworth's Art of...
This commentary is something of a non-review written around an exhibition and catalogue I can only endorse -- Doubleworld, the New Museum's installment of Sarah Charlesworth's deconstructive...
View ArticleHow the Humanist Movement Fosters Economic Injustice
“… a social system which year by year witnesses the increase of the pauper class, and the increase of their miseries, stands condemned before the tribunal of … justice, how long will it take before...
View Article16 Overall Favorite Books of 2016
To look back on any period of reading with the intention of selecting one’s favorite books is a curious two-way time machine — one must scoop the memory of a past and filter it through the sieve of an...
View ArticleThe Definitive Reading List of the 14 Best Books of 2014 Overall
I consider my annual best-of reading lists a kind of Old Year’s resolutions in reverse — unlike traditional resolutions, which lay out an aspirational list of priorities for the new year, these...
View ArticlePope Francis Meets With U.S. Catholic Bishops At Cathedral of St. Matthew
Pope Francis has moved from the pageantry of the White House, and the public spectacle of his popemobile procession, to the rituals of his church. He's at the Cathedral of St. Matthew for prayers...
View ArticleThe 15 Best Books of 2015
In the spirit of treating my annual best-of reading lists as a sort of Old Year’s resolutions in reverse, reflecting not aspirational priorities for the new year but what proved most worth prioritizing...
View ArticleThe Power of Love and the Shadow of Hatred
All photos credited to the author, unless indicated otherwise. The Shooting Just as I am drafting an introduction to the book, The Power of Love, hatred breaks out in "my own backyard." I live in...
View ArticleChampions and Orphans: The 1968 Fresno City College-College of the Sequoias...
Here’s the story. College of the Sequoias football Coach Al Baldock wanted to beat Fresno City College Coach Clare Slaughter in 1968. Instead, Slaughter – blessed with some of the finest talent in the...
View ArticleTop 100 Appealing Tattoos For Girls Worth Piercing
The word Tattoo originates from the Polynesian word ‘tatua’. The word was initially presented by one of the famous British explorers of the Royal Navy, Captain James Cook. He wrote in one of his books...
View ArticleThe Bravery To Be Vulnerable
An experiment in #100DaysofVulnerability Six years ago, I went through a 10 day Vipassana silent meditation course. It was easily, one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Not the silence mind you....
View Article2014’s Best Books on Psychology, Philosophy, and How to Live Meaningfully
After the year’s most intelligent and imaginative children’s books and best science books, here are my favorite books on psychology and philosophy published this year, along with the occasional letter...
View ArticleThe Evolution Of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs And The Bad Boy Family Through...
May 20 2016, 2:35 AM ET Share this article: The launch of VIBE was the definitive introduction of the power of Hip-Hop and culture to move the crowd. Before the Internet, before email, before social...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleBorn Free on thr Planate
A B BARDHAN –”The honeymoon period is over It’s only a question of filing divorce papers.” A BUDDHIST PROVERB –”You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more worthy of your love and...
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