Love Trumps all When it Comes to Spirituality

Have you ever tried to define spirituality?  If you have chances are it got fairly murky fairly quickly.  As we discuss regularly on this blog, spirituality means something different to everyone.  No matter how much we try to quantify, measure, or define spirituality,...

Riding the Wave of Spirituality: Part II

In the last installment, we talked about the HuffPost piece about surfing as a religion.  Check out the full piece here.  While many pro athletes count God and religion among the reasons for the success, few consider the craft itself their religion.  This idea is much...

Riding the Wave of Spirituality: Part I

When someone is so dedicated to their craft, people often refer to it as their religion.  Similar expressions like “he’s married to his job” or “it’s not a job, it’s a way of life” get thrown the way of the ultra dedicated.  Sometimes these are often meant as jabs at...

Trying to Pin Down Spirituality

The term spirituality is extremely vague and can sometimes cause confusion even amongst those that consider themselves to be “spiritual” people.  Some people define spirituality as being religious, while others define it as being in touch with nature.  Some people...

Challah as a Metaphor for a Spiritual Life

Baking homemade bread has become something of a lost art in today’s one-stop shop world of mega grocery stores and pre-packaged everything.  But for one devout sect of Hasidic Jews, baking traditional Challah bread is more than just cooking.  Baked the same way for...