Carla L. Rueckert

At first, I simply held that prayer, the Christ-prayer of redeeming all suffering from the hockshop of pain and paying its price myself. Then, as this pain continued, day and night, I became more fluent with that prayer, so that I was seeing myself breat

It came to me to write about the silence as I worked with that silence for long hours this past two weeks.

There has been a steep rise lately in mail I receive from people asking me questions concerning discernment. “Upon what source can I rely? What book can I trust? What organization is truly positive? How can I know what I know for sure?”

Is Obama a socialist, and if so, is that a bad thing?

Sometimes a priest can make a difference not only to the people of his parish but to the world around him. Bishop Leroy Matthiesen of the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas, is such a man.

Will Allen has made a huge difference in the lives of thousands of people as he heads Growing Power as it pioneers in the urban farming movement.

Molly Ivins was a liberal, writing during times when this stance has been anything but popular. She said that, “It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in

"Real food is whole and full of living enzymes. Science has never been able to synthesize enzymes because it has never learned to synthesize life." - Penny Kelly

Why is water so important, metaphysically and physically? and what can we do to help it thrive?

Why are trees so very important to us?

The soil is a living thing and it needs to be healthy before it can grow healthy food for us.

Why is stress so bad for us? What are its root causes?

Growing a garden in your front lawn can be an act of spirituality and social activism as well as a way to eat the best organic food vailable.

How can we as seekers deal with our relationships more skillfully?

What does it mean to act in partnership with all the forces of nature?