I am reluctant to admit this, but a retired K.G.B. spy has emerged as a moral compass for me.
Health and Wellness
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
What does ethical eating mean to you?
In making decisions about what to eat, respondents to an informal survey told America that the most important factor was their own health.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What Stephen Hawking and my mother taught me about suffering
My approach to the mystery of A.L.S. is a bit different than that of the famed physicist.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I may never be able to thank the Good Samaritan who saved my life.
Through the compassionate act of a stranger, who stepped up to help me after two others had passed me by, my life was saved.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis pays tribute to nurse who saved his life
“I thank her and I want you to know her name: Sister Cornelia Caraglio.”
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
Can the new push for gun control change the way (and whether) guns are stored in the home?
The desire for stronger gun control may not translate into more caution with gun storage among owners of firearms.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What you can do to help those who have lost a loved one to suicide.
If someone you know loses a loved one to suicide, show up, offer words of condolences and keep doing it.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Fasting, fat shaming and finding Christ in my body
People like me have unconsciously learned to hate the bodies God created because they do not meet the standard created by society.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Is it possible to blend yoga and Catholicism?
Is yoga cultural appropriation? Is it just stretching? Is it possible to blend yoga and the Catholic faith? This week we get into these questions and more with Bobby Karle, S.J., the founder of Ignatian Yoga, a practice that draws on Ignatian spirituality and yoga. Through Ignatian Yoga, Bobby offers classes, retreats and workshops centered […]
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Is it possible to blend yoga and Catholicism?
This week, we talk to Bobby Karle, S.J., the founder of Ignatian Yoga.