Secrets of the Spiritual Life

For people of faith, one of the more exciting aspects of recent cultural shifts in the United States is a renewed awareness of our spiritual existence. For better or worse this new cultural identity has served as the springboard for a multitude of books–from...

“Levity”

Judaism teaches that God created Adam alone in the world to teach humanity that whoever destroys one soul destroys the whole world, and whoever saves one soul saves the whole world.   “Levity,” a new film from writer-director Ed Solomon, follows Manual...

Miriam: The Courage to Speak to Power

“To live the full life,” she once said, “one must have the courage to bear the responsibility of the needs of others . . . one must want to bear this responsibility.” She is Aung San Suu Kyi, an extraordinary example of the courage to speak to...

Thomas J. Holmes: Model of Pastoral Courage

Many pastors and churches in the Deep South struggled with the challenges of racial integration during the 1960’s, but few of them did so with more courage than Thomas J. Holmes, pastor of the Tattnall Square Baptist Church in Macon, Ga. The Tattnall Square...

Read to Feed

Who says ending world hunger is a job for grown-ups? Heifer International is bringing young people in on its mission to make poor families self-sufficient. Heifer International is a non-profit organization working to end world hunger and save the earth through the...