Despite my personal beliefs of spiritual openness and freedom, I never forget my native religious language of Christianity. I don't let that limit me spiritually, but I also don't exclude it from my worldview. Since…
Posts tagged Spirituality
The Faith Instinct
Religion evolution seems to be the latest trend in the world of intellectuals, seculars, and atheists trying to model religion into something logical. These new trendsetters, offering a softer, yet still intellectual examination of religion's…
The Third Jesus
Deepak Chopra's 2008 book The Third Jesus is an attempt to understand three distinct manifestations of this elusive person: the historical Jesus, the theological Jesus created by the church, & the spiritual Jesus available to…
Naming Infinity
A few months ago, I had a dream that led me to start thinking about the religious, spiritual, and philosophical significance regarding the mathematical concept of infinity. Combining this with my never-ending interest in Russian…
No Death, No Fear
Thich Nhat Hanh's 2003 book No Death, No Fear is another in a long series of spiritual classics by the Buddhist monk. I have nothing negative to say about this book and can only offer…
A New Earth
In 2008, I listened to Krista Tippett interview Eckhart Tolle for her radio show Speaking of Faith and became interested in his ideas about living in the present reality. Tolle has also been involved with…
Speaking of Faith
Krista Tippett wrote Speaking of Faith in 2007 and around the same time, I discovered her public radio show of the same name. I often listen to the radio show on my iPod, so her…
The Power of Myth
The Power of Myth is a series of conversations between journalist Bill Moyers and mythologist Joseph Campbell that took place in 1985 and 1986. In this remarkable collection, Moyers managed to ask Campbell the right…
The First and Last Freedom
The First and Last Freedom is a 1954 book by philosopher and spiritual thinker Jiddu Krishnamurti. Writer Aldous Huxley wrote the forward and described well what this complex book is all about: “The fundamental theme…
His Holiness
His Holiness, by Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi, is the third biography I have read on John Paul II (JPII), the former leader of the Roman Catholic Church (Garry O'Connor's Universal Father and George Weigel's…
Buddhism Plain and Simple
Minneapolis' own Steve Hagen wrote Buddhism Plain & Simple in 1997 to provide an overview of the religion that was free of “the fetters and cultural trappings that have accumulated over twenty-five centuries” (5). Buddhism…
A Treasury of Hadith and Sunnah
A Treasury of Hadith and Sunnah is an out of print compendium of both sayings uttered by the Islamic Prophet Muhammad (called Hadith in Arabic) and actions/deeds of the Holy Prophet (called Sunnah in Arabic)….