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  • Unexpected Spiritual Experiences: Lost and Found

    Posted on August 31, 2012 | 2 Comments
    When I showed up the next week (closer to 10:10 a.m. this time), the little old lady said, "You came back." I had found my spiritual home.

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  • ‘We Have Won’: The Spirit of the Marathon

    Posted on May 28, 2011 | 16 Comments
    In the year 490 BC, so the story goes, a herald from Athens named Pheidippides, already having run 150 miles over the previous days, ran the 25 mile distance from the battlefield at Marathon to Athens, to announce the victory over the Persian armies. As […]

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  • “Come to Zion”

    Posted on April 16, 2011 | 10 Comments
    ‘Zion’ has become a dirty word in our world: now it is shorthand for the displacement of native peoples from their homelands, and a justification for the flexing of military power for scriptural causes. I’m not sure that when my people sing songs about ‘Zion’ […]

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  • Magnolia

    Posted on March 22, 2011 | 2 Comments
    Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia (1999) shows us (to use David Lynch’s words:) people ‘in trouble’. Like Altman’s Short Cuts, the film revolves around the strangely interconnected lives of a number of families in the city, each trying to navigate crises that seem to be veering […]

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  • The Rituals of Sin

    Posted on March 13, 2011 | 8 Comments
    Today on ‘The Sanctuary’ we’re very pleased to have a guest post from Krisanne, who writes at the Mormon Women Project, as well as  A Paper Moth and Bottari. A couple of days ago I watched Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, a documentary about an […]

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