A cute piece on the Pope’s flashy red (and probably Prada-designed) loafers aired Tuesday on CNN. You’ll love this video clip. I have to thank Beliefnet.com’s astrologer Shelley Ackerman for sending it to me with the note: “Jupiter in Scorpio indeed!” Her astrological analysis of the new pontiff’s birth chart ran on Beliefnet soon after…

Please read Wendy Schuman’s Beliefnet.com interview with author and religious studies scholar Huston Smith. If you are fascinated with what joins the world’s great faiths, Smith is a wonderful author–I’d argue the best. His books are comprehensible and accessible. And there’s a warmth to the man, a gorgeous heroism, that radiates through everything he says.…

There is at least one pairin every thrift shop in America,molded in plastic or plaster of parisand glued to a plaque,or printed in church pamphlet colorsand framed under glass.Today I saw a pair made out oflightweight wire stretched over a patternof finishing nails.this is the way faith goesfrom door to door,cast out of one and…

I would like to contribute something else to your upcoming Thanksgiving–a grateful thought directed towards all the world’s hidden and helpful people, all the enlightened beings you wouldn’t expect to show up in the nick of time, but who nevertheless walk through the woods to where you are, speaking your language no less, seeming to…

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