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Excavations at West Hill, near Uley, in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, have revealed the history of a major shrine complex that thrived and evolved right through the prehistoric and Romano-British periods and beyond.30 First identified as a special place in the third millennium BCE, the wooded hill top here, once cleared of trees, became a focus fo
... See moreMax Adams • The First Kingdom
Daniel Plan, a set of dietary guidelines based on the food choices made by the biblical figure Daniel. Spiritual fasting is a key component of the plan. I have a special fondness for this approach: Dr. Mark Hyman, a specialist in chronic illness and longtime friend, played a key role in the development of the Daniel Plan.
Dave Asprey • Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be (Bulletproof Book 6)
There’s a painting of Joan of Arc by Jules Bastien-Lepage that hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Every now and then, when I’m in New York City, I like to drop in on that painting, as if it were a distant relative I enjoy seeing from time to time.
Elizabeth Lesser • Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
breed. In an impersonal world, “in-ness” can only go as far as cultural or natural categories. In-ness can have no nonmaterial quality, let alone be imagined as a way of the divine and human encountering.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
impotent to reveal his divinity. Obviously, if one followed the logic of orthodox Christology, one had to believe that the human substance of Christ was also truly divine. Moreover, iconodule theology stressed that, in any icon, it is the ‘hypostasis’ – that is, the person – of the subject that is being revealed, and it is that person to whom the v
... See moreDavid Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
Jung's seminal essay ‘Answer to Job’ is an impassioned plea for allowing more of the feminine into our image of the divine.
David Tacey • The Darkening Spirit: Jung, spirituality, religion
Two ideas permeate the Rule of Benedict: love and wisdom. Love is the motive; wisdom is the goal and the Way.
Joan Chittister • The Rule of Benedict: A Spirituality for the 21st Century (Spiritual Legacy Series)
As cantadora (keeper of the old stories), and as an ethnic woman from two cultures, it would be