The Spirit Rests Where it Will: A Zen Meditation on Pentecost and the Mystery of the Holy Spirit May 28, 2023 James Ford Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world. Pentecost(by Jen Norton)     Today is the fiftieth d...

Share Religious holidays punctuate the year to remind us of God's grace breaking into ordinary time. A good spiritual practice is to notice these special times and express gratitude for them. One such time occurs when Christians observe Pentecost, which is associated with the Jewish observation of Shavu'ot. A festival occurring fifty days after the...

Share Peace of mind has many expressions: serenity, trust, composure, equanimity, nonviolence. One of its strongest marks is freedom from worry and anxiety. That's where author Rebecca Gardyn Levington's and artist Mariona Cabassa's new book shines. Working together with a diversity and inclusion consultant, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, and...

Share “With all that had gone on in her life and around her, [Julian of Norwich’s] belief that 'all shall be well' was not the hysterical optimism of someone putting on rose-colored glasses or sticking their head in the sand pretending all this bad stuff will go away, but the voice of one who has deeply experienced suffering and tried to make sense...

Share Marine biologist, ecologist, and writer Rachel Louise Carson (1907 - 1964) is known for alerting the world to the dangers of pesticides through her landmark book Silent Spring. The more we notice “the wonders and realities of the universe about us,” she wrote, “the less taste we shall have for destruction." Carson was born and raised on a fam...

Share Cyprian Consiglio is a Camaldolese Benedictine monk as well as a world-renowned musician and composer. He has written several books but none as accessible as this one. He writes like a mystic, for other mystics, from a place of firm Christian footing, in ways that speak interreligiously to people of all backgrounds. Consiglio has learned a gr...

The Daily Meditation with Paul Harrison Meditation For Borderline Personality Disorder / 13:41 In this guide, I’ll share a wonderful meditation for borderline personality disorder, and I’ll share my personal insight as a professional meditation teacher who has BPD. I’ve suffered from borderline personality disorder for many years, although I was on...

jason quinn jdpsn teaching May 25, 2023 Many people who start practicing Zen want all the bad thoughts and feelings to go away and only want to keep the good ones. There is nothing wrong with that, and that is what can lead us to practice. If we stick with it and practice correctly, we see the struggles we are experiencing as less about the thought...

Share An extraordinary preacher, poet, essayist, and philosopher was born in this day in 1803. Ralph Waldo Emerson taught school and followed his father into the ministry. But six years later in 1832, after the death of his wife, he left the ministry. "God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions," he wrote. He settled ...

Remembering Ralph Waldo Emerson & Transcendentalism on his 220th Birthday May 25, 2023 James Ford Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson           For most of America, Transcendentalism wa...

Artwork by: Arturo De Arrascaeta Penayo, age 12Written by: Marium Ihsan December 2020 was dark, gloomy, and especially cold — the fog settled in early in the evening and never disappeared, becoming a constant. On one of these cold, dark nights my mother had an episode of what a lot of doctors term kaali khaansi, a black cough, or whooping cough. It...

Share Robert Allen Zimmerman was born in Hibbing, Minnesota in 1941, and christened himself Bob Dylan sometime before 1961 when he was discovered playing small clubs in Greenwich Village. Influenced by his musical hero Woody Guthrie and others, he is both the inheritor and the innovator of the tradition of American folk music. Dylan’s maturing as a...

Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world. Robot washing dishes     After I shared my ChatGPT “homily on love” in the style of “James Ishmael Ford” one of my kinder friends assured me the voice was no where near like...

Share Margaret Fuller began her remarkable life on May 23, 1810 in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. Under the tutelage of her father, she received an education equal to her institutionally educated male peers and was as an adult recognized as the best read person — man or woman — in all of New England. She became a great reformer, critic, and journali...

Share “For Thurman, the surest alternative and antidote to the climate of fear was the cause of radical nonviolence. It was the insistence, against all around him, that a life lived without fear was still possible. Radical nonviolence is the subject of the final chapter of Jesus and the Disinherited, a chapter Thurman titled 'Love.' Seeing radical ...

Share The central focus of this book is right there in the subtitle, in the words “unfinished” and “common ground.” Some essential contemporary writers — many of them Black scholars of religion and all of them deserving a wide audience — write essays here on the life and thought of Black theologian and spiritual writer Howard Thurman. Thurman is a ...

As a professional meditation teacher, I spend a good deal of my time leading meditation sessions, both for private individuals and groups, as well as for corporations. And over the years I have come to learn that there is a real art to giving meditation lessons. Indeed, I personally believe that the practice of creating and leading a meditation wil...

A well-known climbing coach said that the biggest obstacle in the way of people’s growth as climbers is, basically, fear of embarrassment. When people want to get better at climbing, they try to do it privately, so that no one can see them doing things badly. They’ll go to the climbing gym when no one is watching, or hang out in a corner hoping no ...

Share According to tradition, the word “myth” comes from the root “mu,” which means “I close my mouth” or “I close my eyes.” It is the root of “mystery” and “mystic,” as well. Myths are the powerful mysteries that infuse and shape our lives from a profound, only half-understood place. Mythology refers to the traditional stories told about these pow...

“I first learned TM (Transcendental Meditation) nearly 40 years ago when I was in a very dark place after losing my mother. It really helped me a lot, but I did not keep my regular practise up as the years went by. I tried many different meditations, but always came back to TM. It was like an old friend and saw me through many difficult times in my...