Becoming a housewife can be hard enough, let alone making the time to apply practical spiritual methods to your day. Sarah Lawrence Hinson discusses her experiences of the application of energy work and how it can help your day move along as you develop your intuition while you are changing diapers! Read more

  I’m in the pharmacy with my 7-year-old son. He points to an item on the shelf and asks, “Daddy, may I have this for Christmas?” I look at what he’s pointing to. It’s a black Darth Vader watch. So I ask him, “Why do you want this for Christmas?” To which he responds, “Because all the boys in my class have one.” Hmm…my dilemma: my son has never seen a Star Wars movie; he knows little or nothing about the film and... Read more

In a recent article I wrote, “How to Brainwash Your Monkey,” I talked about how easily we can fall sway to the illusions and stories we tell ourselves or that others tell us, and that when we do so, we then identify with these stories, an identification that causes us to move far away from what is true. And what happens is that by then identifying with these stories, we start believing things that aren’t true, and we will continue... Read more

As we look back on 2015 and say collectively, “Glad that’s over!” maybe we can find some things to be glad about in the rubble of so much violence, strife, and disaster in this year’s headlines. I came to the role of Managing Editor of the Spirituality Channel at Patheos this past fall by a rather circuitous route, having narrowly dodged the academic life. One part of my historiographical training (that’s the study of the history of history, if you... Read more

Written by Catherine Coleman Flowers. The gathering of nations for two weeks in Le Bourget, Paris is an effort to achieve a legally-binding agreement on climate. In order to avoid the destruction of life on earth, humankind must change the way we do things, and acknowledge the rights of Mother Earth. To help achieve that objective we also need to clearly articulate the needs of frontline communities and nations and partner to stem the flow of climate refugees. This can not... Read more

Written by Mindahi Bastida Muñoz. In this era of globalization and climate change, the wisdom and knowledge of individual ancient cultures is beginning to cross-pollinate in inter-cultural dialogue. This dialogue, which is happening this week in Paris, may represent our only chance of facing the escalating all-encompassing crisis that threatens to overwhelm individuals and nations alike and possibly destroy all. As it progresses, it is also important for Native peoples to come together in unity so that they may share the... Read more