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Why Do Men Have a Hard Time Handing Things Over To God?
If pride truly cometh before the fall then we need a strong harness and a good helmet. Note: When I use “God” I’m talking about the God of the Jewish, Christian and Catholic faiths but it can mean...
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A Brief History of Porn
Erotic art has existed throughout human history. (Even before the internet.)Our society has notoriously never been able to define the precise edges of what we mean by pornography, inevitably falling...
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Opinion: Sexuality Is Not the Same as Religion
Race, Ethnicity, and Gender are not always apparent when a child is born. Neither is sexual orientation. In a recent column at USAToday.com, William Mattox proposes the idea that sexual orientation is...
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The Wrong Kind of Muslim: An Excerpt
The Wrong Kind of MuslimAn Untold Story of Persecution and Perseverance By Qasim RashidIntroductionAs we headed home on the school bus the usual taunts began.“Hey, how come you don’t have that red dot...
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Chants of a Lifetime: Searching for a Heart of Gold
View image | gettyimages.comI don’t lose books.I lost this one.A few years ago, I bought “Chants of a Lifetime” in Los Angeles, got on the plane, read a few chapters, put it aside and walked off the...
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Spiritual and Religious Voices Have Found Their Home at The Good Men Project
And you can too. Read their thoughts and ideas here. Join the conversation on our Facebook Page. Submit your own articles. Together, we are raising the bar as to what it takes to be a good man in the...
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Peeling Off Layers That Society Tattoos Upon Us
Embed from Getty Images It’s time to call bull on the cultural programming that keeps us enslaved to external influences. It’s time to question taboo subjects for ourselves.—I remember what it was...
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Why Do I Love My Motherland?
India is all set to enter her 70th year of independence from the British. It’s a time when many parts of the country see revelry and reverence for the soil that has kept identities alive.It’s also a...
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Love Everyone: The Wisdom of Neem Karoli Baba Told Through the Westerners Who...
Richard Alpert went to India, met Neem Karoli Baba and returned to America as Ram Dass, author of the mega-bestseller “Be Here Now.” He wasn’t supposed to speak about his experiences, but he couldn’t...
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‘My Children Are Neither Hindu Nor Catholic’
.Nisha, my driving instructor talks non-stop while we are out on the road. That’s her way of keeping me distracted from anxiety. We were once stuck in traffic outside a church when she asked me if I...
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What if What’s Going on is Bigger Than Anything We Call ‘News’?
Embed from Getty ImagesWhat if what’s going on is bigger than politics, economic inequality, jingoism, racism and sexism?Check out the album on Amazon here.What if we’re experiencing a series of...
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Persecution: After Auschwitz
After AuschwitzWhen you say “seniority, color, nationality and religious politics –all of which we can’t avoid even if we try to” I agree.Those “grand narratives” or assigned windows. Yet we can look...
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Red, White, Black, or Before the Eclipse
Red, White, Black, or Before the Eclipse14 Aug 2017The darkness drops again – W. B. YeatsOdd to see it there in the old temple this summer, the signof wellbeing—a bent cross turning, a swastika, the...
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Faith Deficit – A New Podcast on Faith and Philosophy
Today I am launching my podcast, Faith Deficit. This is a labour of love – I’ll be exploring individual stories of faith in an increasingly secular world. It’s a conversation I believe we desperately...
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Let It Go
— In California, we have an unrelenting heatwave the first few weeks of September most every year. It is summer’s final farewell, and like a low-grade fever, we enter a period of internal struggle,...
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Prod ‘Nones’ to Vote
Progressives hope for an America where health care is a human right for everyone and women’s right to choose remains secure and gays are safe from cruelty and people of all sorts are welcome equally...
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Maddie’s Grandparents: A Preventable COVID Tragedy
Like many around the world, I sat, mesmerized by watching and hearing the devastating story told by a teenage girl and her father. It reminded me of an alarmingly growing number of families who have...
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When We Need Light the Most
Having been raised in a Jewish home, I was familiar with the festival of lights known as Hanukkah. Candles are kindled to celebrate the miracle of a vessel of oil meant to last only one day, but...
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A Festival of Sharing Love
Although the calendar indicated that it was a late April day, our community of Doylestown, PA gathered to celebrate an ancient Hindu holiday called Holi which actually occurs in March. I had heard of...
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Doing Something Meaningful In Each Moment
Lounging in bed on a drizzly mid-May Saturday afternoon, listening to Sleepy Hollow on WXPN, which is a weekend easy wakeup show on a member-supported radio station based in Philly. It is a ritual I...
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