A Note From Ralph Milton
Friends, I’ve traveled often to Europe on many package tours and visited a lot of churches. For me, the endless procession of stone sculpture and stained glass breaks into a kaleidoscopic blur. Perhaps...
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Photo from Stock.xchng Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week! FOOD 44 Healthiest, Cheapest Fruits and Vegetables Environmental Working...
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Photo from Stock.Xchng Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week! SPIRITUALITY What Motivates Generosity? We believe that the spiritual...
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Photo from Stock.Xchng by Susan McCaslin When I was first invited to write a series of blogs based on my Wood Lake book, Arousing the Spirit, I was reluctant to blog on my own writing. What I had to...
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Photo from Stock.Xchng by Donna Sinclair Sunday afternoon at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Montreal, my favourite city to visit. I am painting my best approximation of an impressionist landscape. Trees...
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Photo from Stock.Xchng Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week! RELIGION Taking Christ Out of the Christmas Celebration Most people...
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Photo from Stock.Xchng by Susan McCaslin The arts have always been avenues for both contemplation and action. Poetry may be seen as one of the softer art forms, but it can be one of the most powerful....
View ArticleCollaging the Deep Self
Photo courtesy of Margaret Kyle by Margaret Kyle In January 2013, I began a group called “Collaging the Deeper Self,” based on the book Soul Collage Evolving by Seena Frost. http://www.soulcollage.com/...
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by Margaret Kyle Photo courtesy of Margaret Kyle (www.kylearts.ca) This is the first card I created using the “Soul Collage” method and it brings me a lot of joy when I look at it. This card reminds me...
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Copyright © Jakub Krechowicz/Shutterstock by Susan McCaslin From the moment I heard poet Robin Blaser lecture in my first graduate course at Simon Fraser University in 1969, I was drawn like a moth to...
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Photo from Stock.Xchng by Susan McCaslin Lately I’ve been learning how to see the “enemy” as a potential friend who might not be so “other” as first assumed. I became involved recently in a local...
View ArticleLaura Alary on What Inspires Her to Write Picture Books That “Make Us Bigger...
Photo courtesy of Picture Book Theology. by Laura Alary This posting originally appeared on the Picture Book Theology Blog. Picture books helped me recover from eight years as a doctoral student....
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by Laura Alary This posting originally appeared on the January 11, 2016 garynealhansen.com. This week I interviewed Laura Alary: a very dear friend, and a children’s author who has written a growing...
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