In October, I had the privilege of giving a keynote at the Southern Grandeur Gala in my hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana. I hadn’t been back home since my mother passed away in late 2020. So I was excited to visit but not so excited to be cold. Houston’s weather has spoiled me ...
a1. The religious belief is a people's spiritual activity aspect, has certain influence to the national culture. Buddhism and Christianity, Islamism benching are the world three big religions. The Chinese believes Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, until the Confucian, Buddha, the road Confucianism,...
Gambling personifies the Shakespearean twist of the racetrack. High rollers and drugstore cowboys wager to win. Some men walk out with a grocery cart of recycled cans; some walk out with enough money to buy a racehorse. They leave by the same gate, and the next day, they return for more...
February 2nd is the day ofCandelora(Candlemas in English), the Christian interpretation of a Pagan festival traditionallymarking the turning point of winter.Candles are blessed in churches on this day during Mass, but nothing usually happens outside. There’s also a saying – similar to that of...
Nothing expresses the spirit of the holiday more than music.More than any other holiday celebrated in America, Christmas moves people to write, play and sing music.There are all religious songs, expressing joy or a sense of spiritual mystery, old folk songs and modern pop music, songs about ...
If there were ever a time demanding religious imagination—the ability to see resurrection light even on Good Friday—this is it. Such envisioning will be one of the ongoing tasks ofThe Religious Imagineer. But we can’t just leap into Easter. We must first do our time at the foot of th...
Spiritual but not religious. Young but not ignorant. Thoughtful with much to learn. I’m a Gemini. Earth sign. Born the Year of the Tiger. 5’6”. 150 pounds. Brown eyes. Red hair. (Most of the time.) Three tattoos…Four if you count the cover up. ...
Blessed with three of Japan’s most important religious destinations – the Ise Grand Shrine complex, the pilgrimage trails of the Kumano Kodo and the temple mountain of Koyasan – the Kii Peninsula can lay claim to be Japan’s most sacred and engaging areas....
Halloween was originally a religious holiday for Druids, and is still celebrated as such by Wiccans. The surrounding days were also claimed as Catholic holidays centered on honoring the dead. But pushes in America to take away “evil” elements of Halloween made the holiday more about ...
In response, he took his religious custom to the Lutheran congregation, where we remained ever since, although I confess to flirting with Episcopal tradition, based mostly on a literary fondness for the language in the Common Book of Prayer. But I kept on reading – because it was that kind...