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Chattering Mind
Remember: It’s About the Teachings, Not the Teacher
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Chattering Mind
Take a walk down Memory Lane when you check out Beliefnet’s slideshow of fallen religious leaders. And remember this advice from His Holiness the Dalai Lama: “Rely on the teachings to evaluate a guru: do not have blind faith, but also [have] no blind criticism.”
Readers on Handling Haggard
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Chattering Mind
My warm thanks go to CM reader Daria for writing this in response to the revelations regarding minister Ted Haggard’s secret life: “I read Ted Haggard’s letter to his congregation and was surprised to find him taking responsibility, apologizing, asking for forgiveness, and blaming no one. I thought of how Martha Stewart, Ken Lay, and…
That’s a Little ‘b’ in ‘Bible,’ If You Please
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Chattering Mind
Notice how, in this piece by Richard Dawkins called “Why I Am Hostile Towards Religion,” Dawkins refuses to write the word “bible” with a capital “B” unless he’s quoting a Christian author whose work was originally published with the “B” upper case. Cheeky atheist!
Are You Happy in Your Kitchen?
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Chattering Mind
My friend Myra, a graduate of New York’s Institute for Integrative Nutrition, has launched her own nutritional consulting business, and I signed on as a client last spring thinking I’d get good nutritional tips (that I could then pass on to you), as well as some help with my anemia. Little did I know that…
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