“Series of interviews with leading near-death experience skeptics show no plausible medical explanation for afterlife experiences.”
“Series of interviews with leading near-death experience skeptics show no plausible medical explanation for afterlife experiences.”
A new study suggests that your ability to touch your toes as you get older could reveal something important about your heart.
In particular, about the stiffness of
the arteries that serve your heart.
Rev. James Martin, S.J. writes:
“What needs to die is a clerical culture that long fostered power, privilege and secrecy. What needs to die is an attitude that had placed concern for a priest’s reputation above that of a child’s welfare. What needs to die is mindset in which investigations of dissident theologians and American Catholic sisters were more swiftly prosecuted than
investigations of abusive priests.
What needs to die is, in a word, a certain pride.
All of this needs to be surrendered.
And it needs to be surrendered even if we don’t know what will come of that surrendering.”
Excellent article. Read it.
What Martin says applies to all Christian churches–and to all who would truly be spiritual.
Eric Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor and theologian, whom the Nazis put to death for standing up for the faith, wrote in The Cost of Discipleship, that Jesus says to all of us, “Come and die.” He rightly points out the dangers of cheap discipleship that was preached then and is even more prevalent now. If we would follow Jesus,
follow any true spiritual path, we must make sacrifices, starting with ourselves and all
we have, are, and will be.
” Which is more likely to lead to high blood pressure — chugging colas or gulping down coffee
?
Point your finger at the soda.
In a new study of women, a cola-a-day habit was associated with about 15 percent higher risk of hypertension, while a pattern of coffee drinking appeared to have little impact.”
Swami Vivekananda, the first India swami to visit
the Americas, recorded at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, 1890s.
He shares many insights and little known facts.
The U.S. government should have played by the rules and “restructured” the banks that needed rescuing, ra
ther than providing them with unwarranted handouts.
“Here’s a little story about a handsome young conservative congressional candidate in Tennessee named Stephen Fincher who is attracting lots of attention from the national GOP, which is swooning over his corn pone appeal and ability to raise gobs of money.
The local teabaggers also love him to death but just don’t know what to do about the fact that he collects 200k a year from the feds in farm subsidies . . .”
“By strengthening intellectual and physical fitness early on, doc tors hope
to prevent, or indefinitely delay, the onset of
the disease.
…………….
One preventive program in particular, known as the Cognitive Fitness and Innovative Therapies (CFIT) project, provides participants with regular quizzes, bra in teasers and thought exercise games,
in addition to
a c
arefully outlined dietary regimen.
As the Wall Street Journal reports, an especially common tool used in many CFIT programs is the Wii, which doctors use to provide both physical exercise and social interaction via team-oriented games.”
Kick your slim-down efforts into high gear by starting each meal with about 16 ounces of water.
“‘Dead peasants’ insurance pays your employer a secret, tax-free windfall when
you die. Insurers have sold millions of policies to companies such as Dow Chemical.”
Thomas Ramey Watson is an affiliate faculty member of Regis University's College of Professional Studies. He has served as an Episcopal chaplain (lay), trained as a psychotherapist, done postdoctoral work at Cambridge University, and was named a Research Fellow at Yale University.
In addition to his scholarly writings, he is a published author of poetry and fiction.