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The surprising benefits of paying attention

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

Taking a deep breath of inspiration together brings unity

鈥淚 love deadlines,鈥 said the late author and humorist Douglas Adams, 鈥淚 love the wooshing sound they make as they go by.

Hindu teachings on the importance of purity of thought and speech

In my previous article, I explained the teaching from Hindu Scriptures that Dharma 鈥 righteous conduct 鈥 was most important above all else.

A Spiritual Lesson Gleaned from Hindu Scripture

Hindus all over the world celebrated Lord Krishna鈥檚 birthday (called Krishna Janmashtami ) on 14 August. The celebrations and rituals on this day are joyous as well as devotional.

Cell phone mishap offers window to spiritual discernment

A mishap with my cell phone recently set me thinking more deeply about spiritual discernment and how it can help us to examine the thoughts and suggestions that come to us - are they true or false - and where are they leading us? When I began having

The Reformation: Ancient history or daily renewal?

When German theologian Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the doors of All Saints Church in Wittenburg, Germany in October 1517, he would probably have been amazed if he鈥檇 known that the Christian world would still be talking about him today and t

Disasters - Let's not call them "An Act of God."

While forest fires are an annual challenge, this year seems to have brought a plague of biblical proportions to BC. Newscasters and other commentators sometimes draw on a religious metaphor, calling such devastating natural events an 鈥淎ct of God鈥.

500th Anniversary of Reformation is time for renewal

In an article for the Faith Forum in November of 2014, I was looking ahead and noted that 2017 is the 500 th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.

Transfiguration 鈥 it鈥檚 immense implications for our world

Imagine this: a group of students went up to the mountaintop and saw Jesus walking and talking with Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx鈥攖wo of the most influential people of the modern world.

How powerful a mother's prayer for protection is

" Indeed Allah has chosen you and purified you and chosen you above the women of the universe . " [Quran 3:42] This beautiful declaration was addressed to none other than Maryam, the mother of Prophet Esa. Mary, the mother of Jesus.