I’m generally not so keen on contacting the dead, and I’m bothered when TV psychics and mediums say things like, “I’m seeing a girl. Do you have a sister? A daughter? Oh, of course, your niece!” I essentially agree with Beliefnet.com writer Sarvananda Bluestone: The dead have a lot of work to do, and it’s…

I believe that there is a mysterious and graceful and miraculous Coherence stitched through this world. I believe that this life is an extraordinary gift, a blink of bright light between vast darknesses. I believe that the fingerprints of the Maker are everywhere: children, hawks, water. I believe that even sadness and tragedy and evil…

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow and her husband Chris Martin have named their new baby Moses. Apparently, Moses is a common male first name these days, “ranking 472 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census,” says the baby naming website ThinkBabyNames.com. It’s much more mainstream than Apple (Paltrow’s little girl, now…

Check out the April issue of Real Simple. It contains a marvelous article about Kate Munger’s all-volunteer choir that sings for the terminally ill. “I don’t feel like I’ve given up anything to do this. I get unbelievable riches, though not the kind you can hold in your hand,” said Munger. “I thought it would…

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