Tag: calm

International Day of Peace

September 20, 2006 | 3 comments

You may not realize it, but September 21, 2006, is the International Day of Peace, as declared by the United Nations in 1981. The world certainly could use more peace, and every effort by any organization to promote brotherly love

Are you or God doing the talking?

September 15, 2006 | 2 comments

Found an excellent piece by Linda Douty on silencing all the noise in our head that prevents us from hearing the voice of God. She points out that external commotion is only one distraction to spiritual communion with the divine.

The Israelis, the Palestinians, and land

July 27, 2006 | No comments yet

The Hizballahs attacked the Israelis with rockets over Israel’s northern border, and the Israelis are counter-attacking fiercely. There’s fear of a larger conflict erupting in an already red-hot Middle East. Will the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis ever cease?

The perils of cloning

July 7, 2006 | 1 comment

It’s been ten years since Dolly’s birth, the lamb that was cloned in Scotland. Time magazine reported this week, “Dozens of animals have been cloned since that first little lamb—mice, cats, cows, pigs, horses and, most recently, a dog—and it’s