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What Works: Regular Meals
by Phil Fox Rose

One of the things I notice whenever I spend time on retreat at a monastery (as I did a few weeks ago) is how much I enjoy the regular meal times, with some of the same food choices day after day. This is not the way I live my life. Which makes me wonder: Why don't I do the same thing at home? At the monastery, breakfast is one hour after I wake up -- 1 hard-boiled egg, 2 slices of toast with orange marmalade. Lunch is four hours later; dinner, ...
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July 14th, 2011
What Works: Regular Meals
One of the things I notice whenever I spend time on retreat at a monastery (as I did a few weeks ago) is how much ...
June 15th, 2011
What Works: How Sweet to Do Nothing
Give yourself the gift of time with no goals -- on retreat, on vacation and at home
Our new level of connectedness is a wonderful thing -- perhaps the greatest blessing technology has brought us. But it has created a new problem. In this hyper-connected world, time in which you can do ...
June 2nd, 2011
What Works: Meat-free Fridays
Reviving an abstinence tradition that never really went away
A few weeks ago, when the bishops of England and Wales decided to reestablish the practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays, I had been thinking about the issue already after seeing friends struggle with ...
May 26th, 2011
What Works: Get Outdoors
Spending time outside is nurturing for you spiritually and physically
Making sure to fit nature into my life, and encouraging others to do to the same, is a passion of mine. As a writer, it's easy enough to stay holed up indoors in a room ...
May 4th, 2011
What Works: “In the face of a man’s death, a Christian never rejoices”
A look at the responses to bin Laden's death
I was going to stay quiet on the whole issue of the public reaction to bin Laden's killing, but after an hour or so of ...
April 20th, 2011
What Works: Renewal
An Easter meditation
I always go to the Easter Vigil. I don't do it out of duty; I do it out of love. My own baptism happened at ...
March 25th, 2011
What Works: Being imperfect doesn’t mean you’re bad, just human
Go easy on yourself this Lent
I broke my Lenten commitment on day one this year. On Ash Wednesday, after a difficult day, I trudged right past two people asking for change on my way home, remembering my commitment but in ...
March 9th, 2011
What Works: What Are You Giving Up for Lent?
A serious challenge
In our Fast Pray Give calendar, Busted Halo has great suggestions for how to broaden the fasting concept during this season. But if you struggle with an addiction, I want you to consider taking it ...
February 25th, 2011
What Works: A lie is a lie is a lie
A look at the discussion about lying sparked by the Lila Rose videos
An interesting thing has happened because of the debate over Lila Rose's tactics in going after Planned Parenthood. A serious discussion has erupted across the ...
February 10th, 2011
What Works: A Look at the New iPhone Confession App
Helpful tool or digital distraction?
As Ginny Moyer's recent article here on e-readers and the reader responses showed so eloquently, you're either comfortable with digital replacements for technologies or ...
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