Might our obsession with every tweet and news bite be too much? The difference between misguided fixation and engaged awareness — and how to redirect our attention to what really matters.
Our Latest Show June 22, 2017
The renowned actor as you’ve never heard him before. He has appeared in over 100 films, including Apocalypse Now. He’s best known on television as President Bartlet in The West Wing. But Martin Sheen, born and still legally named Ramón Estévez, has had another lesser-known life as a spiritual seeker and activist. He returned to a deep and joyful Catholic faith after a crisis at the height of his fame in mid-life. He’s been arrested over 60 times in vigils and protests. “Piety is something you do alone,” he says. “True freedom, spirituality, can only be achieved in community.”
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June 19, 2017
Our weekly Letter from Loring Park compels us to witness all before us close-up, whether the frailties and strengths of our fathers or the spirit of reciprocity around us.
December 28, 2014
Thomas Merton is one of those monastics who continues to inspire so many. Here, the Jesuit Jim Martin reads one of his favorite passages from his book, Thoughts in Solitude.
December 8, 2016
The farmer-poet-conservationist Wendell Berry reads his poem iconic poem. Listen and share!
June 23, 2017
For the closing days of Ramadan, a young Catholic scholar shows us that we can look to many sources outside one's own religious canon to find meaning and pay attention to the world before us.
June 7, 2017
After a medical condition changed the way he observes Ramadan, Omid reflects on what he misses about the embodied experience of the fast — and the inner, spiritual fast he takes on now to live out the holy season.
May 31, 2017
Love and gratitude can be daring, disruptive acts in a world that insists on conflict and endless craving.
June 23, 2017
A grassroots initiative is taking a road trip through America this summer to facilitate messy but healing conversations across political divides.
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