This will be a quick entry from me today . . . In my email inbox this morning, I found a “thought for the day” that really spoke to something I’ve been struggling with for quite a while: “We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is…
I’m about halfway through Barbara Bradley Hagerty’s “Fingerprints of God.” This NPR correspondent has written about “the search for the science of spirituality,” in this engaging and moving book. Just now, in a chapter on “Spiritual Virtuosos” — mapping the brains of people as they meditate and pray — I’ve come across the following text:…
The Burning Times : A Novel of Medieval France Jeanne Kalogridis Simon & Schuster, 2002 ISBN: 0684869241 A few weeks back, I checked this book out of the library for a re-read, having initially read “The Burning Times” nearly a year ago. I hadn’t expected to get hooked when I first picked up “The Burning…
