Caroline Yongue (in orange cap) talks with colleagues as they use GIS to map the location of graves throughout the Sanctuary. Photo Credit: Jess Engebretson In the latest installment of Sacred Action from KALW’s The Spiritual Edge, we meet a Buddhist lay minister who runs a small green burial cemetery in Western North Carolina. The goal is to give North Carolinians an … [Read more...]
SACRED STEPS: How Two Mennonite Musicians Turn Street Ministry Into Song
Al and Andi Tauber met in the 1980s, when they were students at Illinois Wesleyan University. After trying different denominations, they settled on the urban Mennonite Church, and for the past 20 years they've worked with male sex workers in Chicago. Photo Credit: Jules Wecker The Protestant Reformation of the 16th century was never really one movement. Lots of reformations … [Read more...]
Interview: UC San Francisco doctor seeks to heal medicine’s mind-body split
Western medicine once shunned alternative treatments like acupuncture, acupressure or the Indian system of Ayurveda. But the field of medicine is now taking them more seriously. Proof can be found in the emerging field of integrative medicine. Its approach is to combine modern medicine with alternative and complementary approaches, to take into account the whole person. Dr. Sudha Prathikanti … [Read more...]
Interview: A San Francisco author’s surf toward enlightenment
May 2, 2017 — Jaimal Yogis is a San Francisco author who lives at Ocean Beach with his wife and three sons. He spent many years traveling the world seeking spiritual enlightenment. That time is captured in his upcoming book All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride. Jaimal sat down with a fellow surfer, KALW’s Ben Trefny, to talk about it. YOGIS: All that … [Read more...]
The science of forgiveness
To forgive is not easy. The brain is wired to repeat offending moments over and over again, and our bodies — they’re programmed to react. Still, Fred Luskin, a psychologist and director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Project says the effort to overcome anger is worth it. He says the act of forgiving can also better your health; for example, by reducing the likelihood of heart disease. … [Read more...]
