As I write this, the country is finishing up a day of voting. Whether you’re voting red or blue or chartreuse, there’s no doubt this has been a decidedly unspiritual past month, politically speaking; mud has been slung on all sides. Which makes me glad for a new collection of essays that looks wonderful, “Mindful…

Gee, what got into me? I stayed up late shopping online for holiday bed linens again. And then, I didn’t buy a thing. It’s the same every year. I say to myself, “Oh, it’s silly to buy bed sheets just for the winter holidays,” but then the next year, I find myself looking around again,…

While you’re browsing in the flannel sheet department, don’t forget to get some hot water bottles–for yourself or to wrap as winter gifts. I actually put my growing boys (don’t tell them I told you this) to bed with one each and every night from November through February. They seem to find them soothing, and…

Here’s one of my favorite gay spirituality and culture blogs. In one post, writer Greg DiStefano quotes this passage from the “Gospel According to Thomas”: “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don’t bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth…

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