Tag Archives : Spirituality

Health

Women, Faith, and Spirituality

By Jane Moffett, LCSW-R, Ph.D., S.E.P
By Jane Moffett, LCSW-R, Ph.D., S.E.P

A close friend facing the diagnosis of progressive memory loss asks me, “I’ve lived a good life. How is it this is happening to me?” A patient who suffered unspeakable childhood abuse asks, “I’m ready to love, but can I trust it not to hurt?”

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Lifestyle

A Bat-Mitzvah at 63? WHY?

By Adrian Walter-Ginzburg
By Adrian Walter-Ginzburg

I was raring to go, to study the Judaism that has so shaped my life and worldview, to learn about things that I had heard of secondhand but never really understood, and—yes—to meet other adult women who wanted the same thing.

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Emotional Health · News

The Message of Easter Is Mercy

By Rev. Elizabeth Zarelli Turner
By Rev. Elizabeth Zarelli Turner

Pope Francis delivered his first Sunday Angelus prayer and address from his papal apartment on Sunday, March 17. He said, "God never tires of forgiving us, but we sometimes tire of asking Him to forgive us . . . Let us never tire of asking God’s forgiveness.”

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Divorce & Widowhood · Family & Friends

An Episcopal Priest Confronts Loss

By Rev. Elizabeth Zarelli Turner
I was told that one of our parishioners, Kristen, was outside in her car with her 6-year-old son. Her husband had died a few hours before, during a minor outpatient procedure. At the age of 51 he had gone into cardiac arrest, and they had not been able to revive him. Kristen wanted to bring her son by the church to talk to me because she was so afraid of saying the wrong thing about his father’s death and about heaven.
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Lifestyle

For Yom Kippur, Another Reinvention

By Shelley Singer
The baby rabbi, a young man of 26 — fresh from seminary, the most junior of the four in our vast congregation — delivered the sermon on Rosh Hashanah morning. At first, he spoke of creation and destruction, judgment and mercy as the messages of the festival. This day, he said, we are created anew through an act of God’s…
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News

Jane Goodall Speaks

By Chris Lombardi
Fresh from winning the Leakey Prize, for scientists who have “transcended their disciplines, the now-legendary Jane Goodall spoke to Salon about her life, her philosophy, and about the great apes with which she spent so much of her life. Asked why  Louis Leakey had chosen, in the 1960’s,  three women to  conduct the great primate studies, Goodall gives one meta-reason…
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