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January 2016

January 23, 2016
My favorite place to look for God is in people, especially people like Savitri Hari,...

December 2015

December 01, 2015
Nearly a quarter of all Americans now check the box “None” when asked their religious...

November 2015

November 24, 2015
By Barbara Falconer Newhall Lots of good reasons to be thankful this Thanksgiving: One. Pumpkin pie. What...
November 17, 2015
By Barbara Falconer Newhall Some books are even better the second time around.  That's the...
November 12, 2015
I was a junior in college and I was smitten. Who was the lucky guy?...
November 03, 2015
For most of my adult life I haven't been so sure about God. That such a...

October 2015

October 27, 2015
Geoff Machin is a realist who believes that Alfred Lord Tennyson got it right when he...
October 20, 2015
By Barbara Falconer Newhall It’s time to stop the train, Anne Lamott was telling her --...
October 13, 2015
I don't know how to pray. Haven't a clue. Apparently, I'm not alone. Barbara Brown...
October 06, 2015
When our kids were little, the pediatrician once suggested we cut down the cypress tree in...

September 2015

September 27, 2015
When Pope Francis arrived in Washington, D.C., last week, the level of civil discourse in the...
September 22, 2015
I encountered dozens of Americans of every stripe in the course of researching my book, "Wrestling with...
September 15, 2015
By Barbara Falconer Newhall For three days - the entire train trip - the cattle...
September 08, 2015
No doubt about it. Pope Francis is a charmer. In the years since his election...
September 01, 2015
Some temporary art installations deserve to be temporary. The graceless light projections of Danish artist Asbjoern Skou are a good...

August 2015

August 25, 2015
By Barbara Falconer Newhall My brothers had charged me with planning the memorial service for...
August 18, 2015
Some say that the Mass is at the heart of Catholicism. Others might say it's...
August 11, 2015
My Aunt Grace was a businesswoman who took care of business. So when she died...
August 04, 2015
By Barbara Falconer Newhall It's my garden, but I’m not the gardener. I don’t plant. I...

July 2015

July 28, 2015
I ducked in and out of churches all over Europe last month -- up the...
July 21, 2015
Apparently I’m not the only one wrestling with God. In his foreword to my new...
July 15, 2015
By Barbara Falconer Newhall I haven’t cracked open my copy of Go Set a Watchman. But that...
July 14, 2015
Kay Campbell, one of my religion writer colleagues, wrote this about my new book from Patheos Press....
July 07, 2015
The physical therapist contemplates my over stressed and overdeveloped trapezius muscles.  Relax those muscles, she says. Let...

June 2015

June 30, 2015
By Barbara Falconer Newhall Buddhist writers Sylvia Boorstein and Jack Kornfield have taught me a...
June 23, 2015
It was 2o12. Religion scholar Huston Smith was 93 years old and he had a...
June 16, 2015
Some people like certitude. They like to know things for sure. They like to be...
June 09, 2015
Eagle Top is nothing much. It’s just a hill. A short, sandy hill perched on...
June 01, 2015
Jeff Greenwald: Buddha Shopper   I’d been hoping for some time to get my hands on...

May 2015

May 26, 2015
By Barbara Falconer Newhall I’d always imagined Coleman Barks to be a distant, scholarly type —...
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