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Honouring Our Mentors

by Susan McCaslin From the moment I heard poet Robin Blaser lecture in my first graduate course at Simon Fraser University in 1969, I was drawn like a moth to ...

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The Greatest Miracle – Minus the Hocus Pocus

by Robert V. Thompson It’s no overstatement to say that children love magic. Kids love to see rabbits pulled out of hats, people being sawed in half, and birds flying ...

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Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week! WEATHER Heavy rain causes deadly flood in central Europe Germany, the Czech ...

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Writing Democracy. Or not.

by Donna Sinclair When social justice types run out of new ways ...
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We All Wear a Marvellous Disguise

by Robert V. Thompson A number of years ago I had an ...
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by Margaret Kyle This is the first card I created using the ...
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Prayers of Gratitude

by Donna Sinclair I have a scattered approach to prayer. I think ...
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Collaging the Deep Self

by Margaret Kyle In January 2013, I began a group called “Collaging ...
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Arts and Activism

by Susan McCaslin The arts have always been avenues for both contemplation ...

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Here’s what caught our eye this week! ENVIRONMENT Can we blame climate change for the tornado that took out Moore, Okla.? It was a quiet year for tornadoes — until last week, that is. A string of twisters has ravaged the middle of the country over the past several days, culminating in a two-mile-wide tornado […]

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Here’s what caught our eye this week! FOOD The Weirdest, Most Interesting Ice Cream Flavors in Washington Washington’s notorious heat affords a few pleasures, none quite as appreciated as the license to eat ice cream like it’s the only food group that matters during summertime. But no longer are we slaves to plain old vanilla…Read […]

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Here’s what caught our eye this week! NATURE 15 Photos Celebrating National Wildflower Week It is around this time of year each year that many places across the world experience something incredible: the bloom of colorful wildflowers…Read Full Article From Treehugger ENVIRONMENT Snow In May? The Nation’s Midsection Bundles Up The National Weather Service issued […]

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Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week! ENVIRONMENT This Earth Day, Share the Many Faces of Climate Change It is almost time for Earth Day, Monday, April 22, and this year’s theme is The Face of Climate Change. To help put a human face […]

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A God for Atheists: Not Dogma but Mystery


by Robert V. Thompson I have an atheist friend (well, actually, I have a lot of atheist friends) who asked me how it is that otherwise intelligent people can possibly believe in God. At one of his parties, he kicked back a martini and, swaying back and forth, said to me, “So from what you […]

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Here’s what caught our eye this week! SPIRITUALITY Becoming More Empathetic We certainly can use more empathy in a world where national polls have shown an increase in narcissism (self-interest) and a decline in concern about the well-being of others…Read Full Article From Spirituality & Practice NEWS ‘Sandy’ Retired from Storm Names; ‘Sara’ Takes Its […]

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Here’s what caught our eye this week! ENVIRONMENT As Exxon Cleans Oil Spill in Arkansas, Shell Pipeline Spills 700 Barrels in Houston While clean up continues at the site of the Exxon oil pipeline spill in Mayflower, Arkansas, yesterday, an estimated 700 barrels of oil (or almost 30,000 gallons) were found to have leaked from […]

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Let’s Get Physical


by Bruce Sanguin This posting originally appeared on Bruce Sanguin’s blog IfDarwinPrayed.com. Visit his blog for more postings, webinars, and podcasts on Evolutionary Christianity. Church needs to take incarnation more seriously. In all the talk around church transformation, orienting from the body (one’s own and Earth’s body) is rarely part of the conversation. Yet it […]

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Finding Your Inner Nomad


by Bruce Sanguin This posting originally appeared on Bruce Sanguin’s blog IfDarwinPrayed.com. Visit his blog for more postings, webinars, and podcasts on Evolutionary Christianity. For most of human history, we were nomadic. We lived closer to Earth, according to her rhythms and cycles. We took what Earth provided, recognizing that we were dependent upon, and […]

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Here’s what caught our eye this week! WEATHER Storm Brings Season’s Heaviest Snowfall to Midwest, Mid-Atlantic The winter storm that has dumped several inches of snow from the Dakotas to Maryland is expected to linger over the mid-Atlantic on Wednesday, bringing another 5 to 9 inches to many areas in the east…Read Full Article From […]

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