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In her latest book, Jan Frazier portrays her state of consciousness 20 years following her spiritual awakening in 2003. She tells of the loss that occurred three years prior and the profound grief it caused. The heart ultimately came to define Jan's daily experience, overwhelming every other consideration. So potent was this love that for an interval she believed she had entered dementia. Love Incarnate: Twenty Years After Awakening shows what life...
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"Join former NBC newsman and Meet the Press moderator David Gregory as he probes various religious traditions to better understand his own faith and answer life's most important questions: who do we want to be and what do we believe? While David was covering the White House, he had the unusual experience of being asked by President George W. Bush "How's your faith?" David's answer was just emerging. Raised by a Catholic mother and a Jewish dad, he...
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In the US, we often assume religious and spiritual identity are pure, static, and singular, but some people regularly cross religious boundaries. These "spiritually fluid" people celebrate complex religious bonds, and in the process they blur social categories, evoke prejudice, and complicate religious communities. Their presence sparks questions: How and why to people become spiritually fluid? Are they just confused or unable to commit? How...
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"Sarah Sentilles relationship with God was not a casual one. When it began to unravel she was in the ordination process to become an Episcopal priest. She was a youth minister at a church in a suburb of Boston and a doctoral student in theology at Harvard. You might say they were engaged and that the wedding was all planned- the church reserved, the menu chosen, the flowers arranged. Calling it off would be more than a little awkward. But in fact,...
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"HERE FOR THE JOY: A Memoir of Survival, Addiction Recovery, Spiritual Enlightenment, and In-Depth Personal Transformation describes how spiritual badass, Ananda Forest, followed his bliss out of the narrow confines of a privileged upbringing, poisoned by abuse, alcoholism, and mental illness. First, by learning to build houses, work on cars and make whiskey, and later be becoming a sober shaman. The ancient traditions of sweat lodge, vision quest...
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"Join Wes "Scoop" Nisker on a wild ride between West and East on his quest for true self and enlightenment. Combining personal memoir and social commentary, Nisker illuminates modern America's spiritual hunger and chronicles the formation of today's mindfulness movement. His journey begins in Nebraska as the son of Polish Jewish immigrants and the only young man in his small town to be Bar Mitzvah'ed and continues through the Bay Area's heyday-including...
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