The Duke Society for Spirituality, Theology and Health has recently launched this website that includes links to many research papers on the connections between religious beliefs, spiritual practice and your good health. In addition to learning more about how prayer sometimes heals, you can sign up for a newsletter here that will alert you to…

Some of us may have been called “idiotic” or “stupid” as kids. We know how that feels. It doesn’t feel good. So when actor Alec Baldwin’s April 11th voice message to his eleven-year-old daughter Ireland was leaked today, we all got to hear how a successful actor communicates with his daughter (born of actress Kim…

“Television is a chewing gum for the eyes,” architect Frank Lloyd Wright once sneered. I suspect he didn’t watch very much, and he got a lot accomplished in his 92 years. “Turn Off Your Television” week begins Monday, April 23rd. Whatever your circumstances–married, single, kids, no kids–now is a great time to turn off your…

If your computer can play this remarkable video of a dance by the Chinese Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe, I do recommend it. Apparently, every dancer here is both deaf and mute, no doubt making it much more difficult to coordinate the precise movements. The dance is a tribute to the female Buddha or goddess…

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