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Anthony de Mello: On Fire

By Karen Eliasen — 2014

In this article for Thinking Faith, Karen Eliasen thinks about why de Mello could have been well-described as a ‘contemplative in action’.

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Religious Faith Can Lead to Positive Mental Benefits, Writes Stanford Anthropologist

Creating a relationship with a supernatural other takes effort that can lead to meaningful change

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Sandra Feder
2020
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What Rebecca Taught Me About Faith

Tara Sophia Moore discusses her experience of sharing the news of her pregnancy with a close friend and that friend's issues with her own pregnancy in the months that followed.

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Tara Sophia Mohr
2016
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An Invitation

It doesn’t matter if you don’t know whom you’re praying to, says Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel. The very act of asking for help allows the heart to open and invite the world in.

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Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel
2017
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Did Einstein Pray? What the Great Genius Thought About God.

My dear Dr. Einstein, We have brought up the question: ‘Do scientists pray?’ in our Sunday school class.

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Scotty Hendricks
2017
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How Do I Pray?

Let’s start with the definition of prayer, the most classical definition that you learn in Sunday School: “the lifting up of heart and mind to God.”

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David Steindl-Rast
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Investigate the Power of Eight

I’ve always struggled with prayer—the asking kind. It reminds me of Janis Joplin’s satiric song about asking the Lord for a Mercedes-Benz, and it never felt right to me.

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Debra Moffitt
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