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October 30, 2009: The Monastic Life
There will always be a purpose to monastic life, say the sisters of Mount St. Scholastica, as long as there is a need in the world for silence, prayer, simplicity, and balance.
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October 2, 2009: Church Garden
"There's definitely something spiritual about working with the earth and feeling a relationship with all of God's creation," says Cara Gonzalez, a parishioner at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Bethesda, Maryland, who volunteers in the church garden.
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October 2, 2009: Spiritual Gardening
"Every act of gardening embodies a way of relating to creation that invokes moral and spiritual decisions," writes Duke Divinitiy School professor Norman Wirzba.
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September 25, 2009: Harvey Cox
In his new book on the difference between faith and belief, this Harvard professor and scholar of religion says what it means to be religious is shifting significantly as the 21st century unfolds.
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September 25, 2009: Harvey Cox Extended Interview
Read more of Bob Abernethy’s interview in Cambridge, Massachusetts with theologian and Harvard professor Harvey Cox.
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"What binds us together and what binds God to us is food," says Father Leo Patalinghug, a Roman Catholic priest who has his own cooking show.
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September 4, 2009: Father Leo Extended Interview
Read more of Kim Lawton's interview with Father Leo and watch him talk about his television cook-off with celebrity chef and restaurateur Bobby Flay.
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July 17, 2009: Faith and the Brain
“Being religious or spiritual has a very profound effect on our biology and our brain,” says neuroscientist Andrew Newberg. “It can change our brain and change ourselves over time.”
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June 19, 2009: Pilgrimage to Chartres
St. John's University history professor John Rao, a traditionalist Roman Catholic, has made the three-day pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres Cathedral more than half a dozen times and says the experience is filled with ritual, ceremony, and spiritual fervor.
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Sunrise at the Abbey of Gethsemani in the misty hills south of Louisville, Kentucky. The 55 Trappist monks who live here awake at 3:00 a.m. to begin their daily regimen of prayer and work — in silence.
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