Beliefnet Founder’s Founding Faith
Talking about his new book, Founding Faith: How Our Founding Fathers Forged a Radical New Approach to Religious Liberty, on National Public Radio last week, Beliefnet co-founder, Steve Waldman, debunks the twin myths that the Founding Fathers were either a pack of howling evangelicals or a group of proto-new age spiritualists. The [...]

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The Reader’s Oscar night has one man asking, will the Pentagram ever get the same respect as The Star of David
OPINION PIECE: DANNY KENNY — The five Oscar nominations and Kate Winslet’s Best Actress win for “The Reader” give a twist to the old cliche, “if a picture paints a thousand words.” “The Reader” uses [...]

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“Young widow” was a label that I found repulsive. Beyond the label a new love happened
GUEST COLUMN: SUE FREEMAN — When I lost my first husband in 2006, I wondered what changes would come next. Instantly, I was a single parent raising a three-year-old girl. I had mountains of my husband’s paperwork to contend with, [...]

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Cupid’s Coach.com founder Julie Ferman answers questions from Soul’s Code about the boom in the love business, and “What is an aura mixer”?
SOUL’S CODE — According to varied forms of spiritual practice and to the discipline of parapsychology, all of us are surrounded by an “aura” — a field of faint and glowing radiation.  You [...]

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SPIRITUAL SURF: a weekly scan of news and links about pop culture, politics and people with a Soul’s Code spin

Betting against Obama fatigue
By now it’s clear that former President Elect Barack Obama’s image can sell just about anything, from puppy sweaters to phony commemorative coins. But he can also sell your cause — any cause [...]

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The Early Church used ‘miracles’ as a marketing theme as much as the producers of ABC’s Lost do today. But by emphasizing Jesus’ Miracles more than His Teachings, it postponed the Kingdom
FR. DAVID RICKEY: In the Bible, Jesus performed more miracles than filled the first four seasons of the ABC series, Lost, and it must [...]

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Did the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ make you think of your own mortality? A spiritual teacher recalls her own brush with death on a 757

SPECIAL TO SOUL’S CODE: VAISHALI, author of Wisdom Rising — When you are a spiritual teacher, you know — intellectually — that no one ever dies, so you show up for [...]

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Seeing 2009 as more “doom and gloom” is a collective projection. A new solar year is something sacred that can nurture you.
DAVID RICHO, author of When the Past Is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds that Sabotage our Relationships
Annual planting among ancient peoples began with prayer that recalled how the gods performed this same task at [...]

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