With a vast diversity of member communities, Religions for Peace USA has a wealth of knowledge and experience to share about working for peace. These communities meditate, pray, advocate for justice, and work for a better world in many ways. Sometimes, simply hearing these stories can be inspiring for our own work. In this month’s issue, we profile a Jain community in Michigan, as Nirmala Hanke, M.D. leads us through some of the core tenets of Jainism and its applicability to our world today.
International Interfaith Festival in Guadalajara, May 3-9, 2015
As excitement builds for the Parliament of the World’s Religions next year in Salt Lake City (October 15-19), a second major international interfaith gathering has been announced, this one in Guadalajara, Mexico, set for May 3-9, 2015.
Spiritual Practice and Everyday Life in a Digital World
Spirituality & Practice is a website with 27,000 webpages, each a resource for individuals and communities seeking spiritual wisdom and guidance in their everyday lives. The site receives about 1.5 million unique visitors each year (more than 6,000 every day), who click on 5 million page-links. The site also hosts more than 100 online on-demand e-courses, all having to do with spiritual practice. Thousands sign up each year for the modestly priced courses. Hundreds of books and movies have been reviewed, and spiritual leaders from dozens of different religious traditions, alive or passed, are profiled, quoted, and linked to additional resources. S&P includes blogs, “Praying the News,” curricula, videos, galleries, poetry and stories, and more.
Review: Awakening Shakti by Sally Kempton
Made in the Image of God
Spiritually Literate New Year’s Resolutions
A Different Approach to Deity
The Rudiments of My Neopagan Spiritual Practice
Meditation is Not Religion or Spirituality – It’s Technology
An Interview with Jay Michaelson, Author of Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment (North Atlantic Books, 2013)
Introducing InterSpiritual Meditation
Bhakti – The Path of Devotion in India and the West
The Art of Spiritual Living Never Looked So Inviting
Dawn of Interspirituality Conference
Cynthia Bourgeault’s Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening
Howard A. Addison’s Show Me Your Way - The Complete Guide to Exploring Interfaith Spiritual Direction
Pioneers in Hindu-Christian Interspirituality
‘Seeds of Peace’ Juxtaposes Meditation & the Engaged Life
Camino de Crestone Opens this Summer
Interspiritual Revolution: How the Occupy Generation Is Re-Envisioning Spirituality and (New) Monasticism
How to Develop Spiritual Friendship
Last spring semester I mentioned Spiritual Friendship in a course I was teaching on spirituality. One of the students shared with me that he had never heard the term. He was intrigued with the concept — it seemed to describe one of his relationships.