There are physical places that do something to our souls, that stir something inside of us. Often we even talk about those places in spiritual terms–those places evoke something that feels connected to God, or the divine, or whatever you choose to call it. As I’ve written before, I learned a few years back that…

A few articles of interest this week: David Brooks’ piece about the way the recession is changing not only “the American dream” but particularly the Christian response to the American dream: “The Gospel of Wealth“ I was going to recommend Time Magazine’s “The New Drug Crisis” in the current issue, but I guess they’ve decided…

I have a review of the book Following Jesus Through the Eye of the Needle in this month’s edition of Books and Culture. Click here to read this review. The book is a memoir about the author, Kent Annan’s, year in Haiti trying to live among the indigenous people. Though it was written before the…

One of the editors over at Patheos recently asked a slate of bloggers to respond to the following question (in 100 words or less): When you can’t drop everything for a year-long spiritual pilgrimage, how/where do you seek spiritual renewal in times of personal crisis?  She asked it in response to Eat, Pray, Love, with…

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