Since we like television that makes you think, it’s hard to beat PBS’ Bill Moyers. He sat down last year with a series of spiritually-fueled fiction greats to talk about faith and reason. Worth the price of admission, you can get it online.

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Dear Friends,

We arrived home last night  in the middle of the night, about 3:30 AM after a long, long wait in JFK. This morning we are basking in the luxury of simple things: our privacy, plenty of hot water, our garden, our stereo, and yeah gads, so many choices of things to wear. (Three shirts […]

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Today will be our last full day in Spain. We arrived in Toledo last night and we enjoyed the Cathedral and San Tome this morning.  Otis is happy because he is finally warm. The ancient walled city is very special and its capture was the turning point in the Spanish reconquest of Spain. We saw […]

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It’s good to take vacations. They break patterns, and allow you to pull yourself out of pain cycles, and refocus you on savoring every moment.

Nobody knows that better than all-star Danish business man Morten Lund, the venture capitalist behind Skype. He spent two […]

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We arrived in Santiago on the 14th two days ahead of time in the rain, we walked 18 days and covered about 250 miles of up and down hill, lots of rocks and tough going. But it has been a fantastic experience.

We attended the pilgrim mass the day we arrive, got our Composela, the certificate […]

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We have only 5K left to go and will arrive at Santiago tomorrow. We walked 12 miles today and it has turned cold and windy. We had a few showers, but fortunately didn’t get caught in a downpour.

We are glad we started in […]

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I had experienced my share of desperate moments since I came to University, but none rivaled the week after my freshman year midterms.

Midterms had been like a big, ominous cloud bank at the horizon for the last month. And as midterms came closer, the darker the sky became until there was no sun. I dreaded […]

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Here’s a stunning interview with a Navy Seal who got caught in a Taliban shootout in Afganistan where the rest of his task force died. He tells his interviewer that he died up on that mountain, too. It’s a moving story that makes you wonder how many times you can die in your life.

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So I’ve been reading about being in the moment. It’s a great idea, but it sounds impossible to live in today’s world. I mean, imagine focusing on the now of eating a meal. You chew your food, you smell it, you feel it, […]

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We are still enjoying our great adventure, walking and walking and walking on the Camino. The route has become easier as we near Santiago. We have 65 K left to go approximately 41 miles. We´ve had rain the last two days in the […]

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AN ACTUAL E-MAIL FROM A Soul’s Code READER:

I was traveling in Europe when I met a man that made me feel like I hadn’t felt in years. You know how it feels when you lock eyes with someone and feel a connection, like an electrical current pulsing through you? He had gorgeous eyes and a […]

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Check this out:

“It is not only possible but highly plausible that many Western European Christians did not just stop having children and families because they became secular. At least some of the time, the record suggests, they also became secular because they stopped having children and families. If this way of augmenting the […]

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We made it over the second of two mountain ranges on the route to Santiago. We were struggling and I mean struggling up one particularly difficult section on a road and gasping for breath when we heard the plop, plop, plog of a jogger. Yes a man well past his prime, possibly nearly my age, […]

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Congratulations to Soul’s Code friend Robert Hare, whose work on psychopathy was highlighted in the penultimate episode of The Sopranos. It aired on Sunday night (June 3, if you’re reading this in our archive), and won the love of reviewers because its tightly-wound narrative resembled Act […]

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My sister went to all girl’s elementary school (incidentally Episcopalian). It was an amazing school but incredibly dysfunctional. By forth grade when she left, the girls were already grade levels beyond their age in reading, math, etc., but the intensity was crushing. Ten year-old were on the verge of pulling all-nighters over trivialities like the […]

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Before Sean was born, my parents used to take me on hikes. We’d go to a park near our house. It was a natural area of forests with little streams percolated up from the rocks and ran into a lake at the center of the park. I loved going there. For a real treat, we […]

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A beautiful day today and a good smooth walk. Yesterday visited the Romaneque church of Santiago at Bierzo passing through the Puerta del Pardon where medieval pilgrims too sick to continue were granted forgiveness if they got that far. Stay at Ave Fenix […]

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When Sean was still in the hospital, I remember walking into his room and feeling the hurt all over again. He was gone forever all over again. I understood how my family had changed since I had left then. My wounds were scabbing over, theirs never would, so long as Sean was alive.

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Jully Black has some advice for how to deal with a cheating ex-boyfriend that’s still on the mind of one of her readers. It sounds like a bad situation. He got another woman pregnant and his ex-girlfriend of five years has nightmares about it. Black’s suggestion? “As far as your nightmares, you need […]