walls
Walls are designed to keep people safe. But walls also divide, keeping people apart. The 96-mile (155 km) Berlin Wall kept the East Germans in. The Great Wall of China, which was believed to be 5,500 miles long (8,850 km) and is now estimated to be 13,170 miles long (21,196 km), kept enemies out.
you choose Q: what is spirituality?
Q: What is spirituality? What are essentials to increase spirituality? —Tunde
A: Spirituality is the quality of one’s sensitivity to the things of the spirit as opposed to material or physical things. As a believer in Jesus, your spirituality signifies the state of your soul or spirit as quickened and vitalized by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:12-16), and made alive…
eat, pray, love
Spiritual memoirs are enjoying renewed popularity, and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love has been the latest success story. A chronicle of her midlife crisis and quest for fulfillment, the book and subsequent movie captures her journey to Italy for food, India for spiritual enlightenment, and Bali for romance.
Critics have labeled Eat, Pray, Love narcissistic and shallow. Gilbert has an illicit affair,…
spiritual pursuit
On this day in 1963, the world was shocked by the news that John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, had been killed by an assassin’s bullet. Though it’s not as well known or remembered, Christian author C. S. Lewis passed away the very same day. Even fewer will remember that Aldous Huxley, author of the book…
let's get physical
The hall leading to Michelangelo's David in the Academy in Florence holds several of his unfinished statues. These "prisoner" statues are more interesting than his impressive David, for the chiseled outlines of their half-finished forms offer a glimpse of a genius at work. Their placard says that Michelangelo left these statues unfinished to express his belief that, just as the prisoners'…
