Some of the everyday spiritual advice people receive in the USA in 2008 comes from self-help sources like The Secret , Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life or the inspirational guests of popular TV host Oprah Winfrey .
This excerpt is from a daily words of encouragement book The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie:
The Victim Trap
The belief that life [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Self-help and Spirituality
Posted in Beliefs, People, tagged Self-help, Spirituality on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘Ask A Rabbi’
Posted in Beliefs, Current events, Organisations, People on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jewish Answers is a website devoted to providing answers to questions within Judaism- ‘the faith of questions’.
Example:
Question: What is the most holy thing or object in Judaism, and how is reverence to it expressed by the believer? For example, if it is the Torah, do believers stand when it is opened, and is it not [...]
Palestine’s Poet
Posted in Current events, People, tagged News, Palestine, Poetry on August 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When Palestine’s beloved poet Mahmoud Darwish died in Houston Texas last week, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared there would be three days’ national mouring.
I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I [...]
Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Saudi Arabia
Posted in Beliefs, Current events, tagged Islam, Saudi Arabia on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
هيئه الأمر بالمعروف و النهي عن المنكر
A story which is all over pet-loving American media this week is the restriction on sale of pets and leisure activities of pets and pet-owners by the Saudi religious law enforcement agency Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Riyadh.
There are 5000 agents of Haya [...]
Franciscan Apple Seeds
Posted in Beliefs, People, Places, tagged Bioethics, Franciscan, Saint Francis on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Apple Seeds is the inspirational newsletter of Father Brian Cavannaugh as an outreach project of the christian Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio.
Friars of the Third Order of Saint Francis take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience after the life of Saint Francis:
As followers of Saint Francis of Assisi, we respond to God and our founder [...]
