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Albert Einstein
Book Bits

The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Experience Is The Mysterious: Albert Einstein’s Living Philosophy

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Albert Einstein lays out his living philosophy and the set of ideals that he held in his personal, spiritual and political life.

Tagged Advice, meaning, mystery, philosophy, purpose, religion, science, wonderLeave a comment
Kevin James
Featured Poetry

Kevin James – Just for You

August 1, 2021August 23, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Kevin James' "Just for You", explores the experience of immanence, a theological doctrine stating that the divine presence is present and active in our material world as opposed to just in a metaphysical or ethereal realm.

Tagged breath, divine, existence, faith, immanence, material world, Poetry, power, religion, theology, wonder2 Comments
Dane Lyn
Featured Poetry

Dane Lyn – holy musings at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019

July 25, 2021July 25, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Dane Lyn's "holy musings at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019" is a brilliant work of ekphrastic poetry, inspired by a religious painting by an unknown artist, titled "The Great Harlot of Babylon".

Tagged art, artwork, ekphrastic, faith, hypocrisy, Judgement, misogyny, painting, religion, religious art, Women1 Comment
Pamela Wax
Featured Poetry

Pamela Wax – Capricorn Loses His Star

July 18, 2021July 21, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet and rabbi Pamela Wax's poem touches upon the themes of sacrifice, tragedy, regret, and atonement.

Tagged astrology, atonement, capricorn, goats, Judaism, regret, religion, repentance, sacrifice, tragedy1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Angelic Armendariz – Nonbeliever

July 8, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Angelic Armendariz, with her poem "Nonbeliever", gives readers a brief but poignant piece with three distinct stages in questioning faith, spirituality, and God.

Tagged Belief, Believer, faith, Faith and practice, God, growth, loss, religion, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, traumaLeave a comment
Way-Seeking Mind

Leaving

April 8, 2021April 7, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY MICHELLE NICHOLAYSEN When I left the Seventh-day Adventists, I thought I could keep the love and forget the wrath.

Tagged childhood, Christianity, departure, healing, leaving, religion, religious history, seventh day adventists1 Comment
Lori Rottenberg
Featured Poetry

Lori Rottenberg – Heresy

March 7, 2021March 6, 2021 Vanessa Able

Lori Rottenberg wrote her poem, Heresy, when her children were young and she was a stay-at-home mom.

Tagged Children, faith, marriage, parenting, partnership, Relationships, religionLeave a comment
Mark Twain
Book Bits

“You Can’t Pray a Lie” – Mark Twain’s Huck Finn

August 7, 2020August 7, 2020 Vanessa Able

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn suggests that evil is not something manifested by wicked people, rather it perpetuates with the conventions that we absorb from childhood.

Tagged controversy, morality, race, religion, slavery, truthLeave a comment
Raymond P. Hammond
Featured, Featured Poetry

Raymond P. Hammond – F Train

July 19, 2020July 17, 2020 Vanessa Able

"While I often found the emergence from the dark of the tunnel shocking, as my eyes would adjust and I would look forward and skyward, I always found this image to be comforting, reassuring."

Tagged Darkness, emergence, religion, Spirituality, transcendence, zoetrope1 Comment
Simone Weil
Book Bits

Simone Weil – The Infinite in an Instant

May 1, 2020May 1, 2020 Vanessa Able

Simone Weil lauds 'unmixed attention', which she likens to prayer, and reflects on the quality of attention, expressed as 'patience, effort and method' to 'understand with our whole self the truths which are evident.'

Tagged activism, attention, effort, faith, infinite, love, patience, prayer, religion, truth, will2 Comments

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