Taken from a forum post and republished here: So, I’ve been mulling this thing for over a week now, wondering how to go about expressing my gratitude to the man I married almost 13 years ago. I decided to do it here because: A) It’s my forum and I can and B) Most of the [...]

Or, how modern colleges and universities are finding ways to integrate interfaith dialogues into a post-modern curriculum. Last November, the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA played host to “faculty, staff and administrators from 10 colleges and universities across the country” who gathered to discuss and develop their ideas about the integration of spirituality and [...]

With a farewell speech that contained searing attacks on capitalism, Marxism, birth control, sex, drugs and “lax morals,” Pope Benedict XVI has deeply underscored his church’s irrelevancy to Latin American Catholics and proved how out of touch he is with God’s movement in modern times. By all accounts Joseph Ratzinger was and is a highly [...]

(No, unfortunately it’s not for Kira. This came through in my email this morning, so I thought I’d pass it on.) May 3, 2007 Good News Travels Fast! Your [tag]activism[/tag] just saved supplements from being turned into “untested drugs”! [tag]Big Pharma[/tag] will be back, but today, we can do a victory dance! Thank you 435,005 [...]

Just popping in here to mention that in the mail today was the first earnings check I’ve ever received from our [tag]POD[/tag] [tag]publisher[/tag]! Okay, so 7 Mysteries isn’t endangering anyone on the [tag]Times[/tag] [tag]Bestseller[/tag] list yet — but it sure was nice to see $omething come back for all that hard work. Don’t know what [...]

You know how intense the clash of disparately evolved cultures and societies is getting when you can see it by simply loading a webpage. As I loaded my [tag]Google[/tag] homepage this morning I first saw this: Cleric’s 2nd wife sparks polygamy debate. The article discusses the reaction in Indonesia of a [tag]televangelist[/tag]-style [tag]Islamic[/tag] cleric (yes [...]

As in, two from out of the blue this morning (well, three, but I’m only going to talk about two of them here) to shake up whatever passes for reality here at MFL. These two came from Rob [tag]Brezsny[/tag]‘s FreeWill Astrology newsletter. the first was the opener: “If you desire to know where your spiritual [...]

Something to share today: First an article on Gregorian Chant that explains the title to this post. Second, a link to Walsingham in Texas, a Live365 radio station that broadcasts these chants 24/7. Tune in while you’re reading for a relaxing, tuned-in, timeless moment of awareness… [tags]music, timelessness, awareness, gregorian, wow![/tags]

… the computer we use to connect to the Internet died a few weeks ago. Hence, no blog posts, no email, no online community support, nothing. We’re back now, and the series on my son’s hospitalization should conclude within a few posts. Thanks for you patience. It’s great to be back! Metaphors For Life’s website

What every person ought to know before they become hospitalized. I’ve noticed that since I wrote the last installment I’ve felt like writing again, and about more than what happened to my son and my family this past summer. I’m getting ideas and concepts about projects I want to tackle that don’t involve my home. [...]