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Oh, isn’t this interesting? A whole website that teaches you how to make your last will and testament more ethical. I’m just passing it along.

No Chattering Mind post has inspired as much mail as my inquiry into how folks are ending their spiritual correspondence. What follows is a list of all the marvelous ways people are ending emails and letters to their fellows on the path. “Blessings,” and all its variations seem to be the most popular substitutes for…

“That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Magic Cabin started as a hand-made doll catalog, and year after year, the lovely, natural toys and craft kits it features give me greater faith in all humanity! Get a paper copy of the catalog mailed to you or shop online. And please, tell me which websites, catalogs, and store you use this time of…

“I love my life, and I know I love my life.” —Ed Bradley, as recalled by Diane Sawyer in Friday morning’s tribute to him on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

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.”

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…

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!

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…

As a mother, I can really relate to this. Have a look!
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