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Tag Archives: beauty

The Hallelujah of Skateboarding

September 11, 2017by Madi Simpson Leave a comment

There’s a hallelujah for pretty much everything: a point, a moment, when one’s observation or participation in a thing calls forth praise to God. Most of the time we miss […]

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On Anything and Everything

Snowflakes

March 27, 2017by Matthew James Gray 1 Comment

Some time ago, a little-known Russian photographer, Alexey Kljatov, quietly posted on his blog and Flickr some highly magnified photographs of snowflakes. They have since gone viral. While people have […]

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Spirituality for the Rest of Us

The School of Greatness

August 1, 2016by René Breuel 3 Comments

One of my favorite stories of all time is that of a young man who dreams big. And his dreams come true. But about 13 years of suffering and humiliation […]

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Making a Difference

A Breath of Beauty

July 18, 2016by René Breuel Leave a comment

An iconic movement blossomed in Parisian circles in the late 1860s. Artists like Claude Monet, Jean-Pierre Renoir and Edward Degas started to forge a new way of painting, opening a […]

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Spirituality for the Rest of Us

Einstein’s Concert

April 4, 2016by René Breuel Leave a comment

Yehudi Menuhin started at the violin at a young age. Regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest violin performers, he was already playing with the San Francisco Symphony at the […]

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Spirituality for the Rest of Us

This is a Fascinating World

October 19, 2015by René Breuel 1 Comment

I’m reading a book that makes me giggle, tear up, or draw smiley faces at seemingly every other page: Gilead, by Marylinne Robinson. A Pulitzer Prize winner, it is a […]

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Spirituality for the Rest of Us

Pied Beauty

October 12, 2015by René Breuel Leave a comment

How can we handle imperfection? Imperfection in others, imperfection in ourselves, that unnerving quality which prevents us from calling something fully black or white, beautiful or ugly? Something deep in […]

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Spirituality for the Rest of Us

Where in the World is God?

September 28, 2015by Ryan

It was a morning soaked in pain. Three stories, three conversations, three lives turned upside down and inside out. A death, a dying, and a falling apart. And through it […]

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Tough Questions

Local gods

October 27, 2014by René Breuel 2 Comments

A recent biography sets out to unearth the real person behind the mythical cloud of Cleopatra. A captivating, resourceful Egyptian queen who managed to win over the hearts and political […]

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On Anything and Everything

A Real Looker

October 23, 2014by Madi Simpson Leave a comment

In the world of the selfie, it’s hard to imagine not knowing what we look like. So much rests on the perfect profile shot. My Twitter pic has my chin […]

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