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O amor é um exercício de acolhimento da nossa individualidade e da complexidade que nos constitui como seres humanos. O amor é um espaço de segurança para ser quem se é em liberdade. O amor é um nariz de palhaço que nos livra da mediação da culpa e do medo. O amor é o direito de se querer bem e ter gratidão pela vida. Convidamos você a refletir junto com Pastor Henrique Vieira o exercício do amor na sua plenitude.

Amar é uma concessão que não legitima o sofrimento e a opressão. O critério para uma concessão é a promoção humana. Se a minha intervenção oprime, então eu não tenho direito de ser assim. Convidamos você a refletir junto com Padre Júlio Lancellotti o exercício do amor na sua plenitude.

Será que precisamos falar de amor ou demonstrar através de ações e pensamentos? Será que ambos se completam? Ou será que apenas ao final da vida somos capazes de manifestar, com simplicidade, o nosso cuidado amoroso? Convidamos você a refletir junto com Monja Coen o exercício do amor na sua plenitude.

O amor tem uma concretude. É impossível falar dele somente como algo ideal, como um amor estratosférico. Convidamos você a refletir junto com Padre Júlio Lancellotti o exercício do amor na sua plenitude.

Fundamentalism reeks. If fundamentalism reeked for one or two reasons, we may not need to address it. But fundamentalism reeks for a multitude of reasons. Fundamentalism reeks for at least 95 reasons.

We aren't meant to be alone together! We live in a world that is filled with things to distract us and divide us. We have never been more connected and yet the quality of these connections are in a downward spiral. In this collection of essays, the author will address some of these problems and provide helpful insights on how to: Be the kind of friend you want others to be Live well in community, not in isolation Focus on what is important in this crazy world we live in Discern truth and build your life around it Not be a fool on the internet or in real life We are in this together, and we ...

Freethinking essayist Chris Highland presents a new collection of his latest columns from the Asheville Citizen-Times, plus more essays to energize critical thinking. A non-theist who is not anti-religious, Highland offers perspectives on topics of interest to secular as well as believing people. Concise, controversial and inviting to dialogue, each brief essay opens a constructive path to common ground in a humanistic and sometimes humorous way. Highland draws from his love of nature, his years of interfaith chaplaincy and non-profit management and his emergence from faith, to engage ...

"Brings the practice of spirituality to a very practical level," Deepak Chopra, author of the Seven Spiritutal Laws of Success "One of America's foremost spiritual teachers," Wayne Dyer Blue Snow is a beautiful series of essays published over the course of many years by the late, great teacher, Father Paul Keenan. Each story will inspire you to live a better life while providing practical wisdom and advice for daily living.

Father Paul Keenan was Director of Radio Ministry for the Archdiocese of New York and co-host of WABC’s "Religion on the Line" for over twelve years. From 1992 - 2002, he hosted "As You Think," a weekly inspirational radio program on which celebrities such as Larry King, Dick Cavett, Steve Allen, Harry Smith, Deepak Chopra, Annette Funicello, Joyce Randolph and Thomas Moore spoke informally with Father Paul about spirituality and inspiration. He served as commentator for such national broadcasts as the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (CBS Television); the funeral of Mother Teresa (...

Father Paul Keenan was Director of Radio Ministry for the Archdiocese of New York and co-host of WABC’s "Religion on the Line" for over twelve years. From 1992 - 2002, he hosted "As You Think," a weekly inspirational radio program on which celebrities such as Larry King, Dick Cavett, Steve Allen, Harry Smith, Deepak Chopra, Annette Funicello, Joyce Randolph and Thomas Moore spoke informally with Father Paul about spirituality and inspiration. He served as commentator for such national broadcasts as the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (CBS Television); the funeral of Mother Teresa (...

Father Paul Keenan was Director of Radio Ministry for the Archdiocese of New York and co-host of WABC’s "Religion on the Line" for over twelve years. From 1992 - 2002, he hosted "As You Think," a weekly inspirational radio program on which celebrities such as Larry King, Dick Cavett, Steve Allen, Harry Smith, Deepak Chopra, Annette Funicello, Joyce Randolph and Thomas Moore spoke informally with Father Paul about spirituality and inspiration. He served as commentator for such national broadcasts as the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (CBS Television); the funeral of Mother Teresa (...

Father Paul Keenan was Director of Radio Ministry for the Archdiocese of New York and co-host of WABC’s "Religion on the Line" for over twelve years. From 1992 - 2002, he hosted "As You Think," a weekly inspirational radio program on which celebrities such as Larry King, Dick Cavett, Steve Allen, Harry Smith, Deepak Chopra, Annette Funicello, Joyce Randolph and Thomas Moore spoke informally with Father Paul about spirituality and inspiration. He served as commentator for such national broadcasts as the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (CBS Television); the funeral of Mother Teresa (...

Father Paul Keenan was Director of Radio Ministry for the Archdiocese of New York and co-host of WABC’s "Religion on the Line" for over twelve years. From 1992 - 2002, he hosted "As You Think," a weekly inspirational radio program on which celebrities such as Larry King, Dick Cavett, Steve Allen, Harry Smith, Deepak Chopra, Annette Funicello, Joyce Randolph and Thomas Moore spoke informally with Father Paul about spirituality and inspiration. He served as commentator for such national broadcasts as the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (CBS Television); the funeral of Mother Teresa (...

* Attention readers! A NEW story (September 2014) was added to this timely book. "Into Thin Air" is a dramatic story, thought provoking, and goose-bumpy chilling! The 12 short stories within the covers of this book are poignant reminders that something ominous is just over the horizon - as in Jaws, the music sets the viewer on edge with its terrifying and suspenseful dun-dun, dun-dun, dun-dun as the shark approaches. A mystery hangs in the air. Something terrifying is about to happen, but what? These stories, written by Tim Cameron and Ed Gaulden go to the very cusp, the edge, the threshold...

Father Paul Keenan was Director of Radio Ministry for the Archdiocese of New York and co-host of WABC’s "Religion on the Line" for over twelve years. From 1992 - 2002, he hosted "As You Think," a weekly inspirational radio program on which celebrities such as Larry King, Dick Cavett, Steve Allen, Harry Smith, Deepak Chopra, Annette Funicello, Joyce Randolph and Thomas Moore spoke informally with Father Paul about spirituality and inspiration. He served as commentator for such national broadcasts as the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (CBS Television); the funeral of Mother Teresa (...

Father Paul Keenan was Director of Radio Ministry for the Archdiocese of New York and co-host of WABC’s "Religion on the Line" for over twelve years. From 1992 - 2002, he hosted "As You Think," a weekly inspirational radio program on which celebrities such as Larry King, Dick Cavett, Steve Allen, Harry Smith, Deepak Chopra, Annette Funicello, Joyce Randolph and Thomas Moore spoke informally with Father Paul about spirituality and inspiration. He served as commentator for such national broadcasts as the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (CBS Television); the funeral of Mother Teresa (...

Father Paul Keenan was Director of Radio Ministry for the Archdiocese of New York and co-host of WABC’s "Religion on the Line" for over twelve years. From 1992 - 2002, he hosted "As You Think," a weekly inspirational radio program on which celebrities such as Larry King, Dick Cavett, Steve Allen, Harry Smith, Deepak Chopra, Annette Funicello, Joyce Randolph and Thomas Moore spoke informally with Father Paul about spirituality and inspiration. He served as commentator for such national broadcasts as the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (CBS Television); the funeral of Mother Teresa (...

Father Paul Keenan was Director of Radio Ministry for the Archdiocese of New York and co-host of WABC’s "Religion on the Line" for over twelve years. From 1992 - 2002, he hosted "As You Think," a weekly inspirational radio program on which celebrities such as Larry King, Dick Cavett, Steve Allen, Harry Smith, Deepak Chopra, Annette Funicello, Joyce Randolph and Thomas Moore spoke informally with Father Paul about spirituality and inspiration. He served as commentator for such national broadcasts as the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (CBS Television); the funeral of Mother Teresa (...

Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It's an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us--our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives.

Essays exploring the edges, and edginess, of faith and freethought. Former minister Chris Highland presents another collection of essays primarily drawn from his weekly columns in the Asheville Citizen-Times (North Carolina).