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“I want to take my temperature again,” were my nine-year-old son’s first words this morning. “Hmmm,” he said, frowning at the results. “98.4.” “Yeah, I think you can go to school,” I said, stroking his forehead. “But look, only three more weeks until Christmas vacation.” It’s such a typical child’s lament: Thanksgiving’s over, back to…

CHANGE If you knew that you would die todayIf you saw the face of God and loveWould you change?Would you change?If you knew that love can’t break your heartWhen you’re down so low you cannot fallWould you change, would you change? How bad, how good, does it need to get?How many losses, how much regret?What…

Hey, how are you doing in your efforts to drink eight glasses of water a day? I have re-devoted myself to the ritual, but my daily totals are still uneven. Yesterday, I counted only four or five glasses. The day before that, I drank the full eight and felt alive and well. Vibrant might be…

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.…
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