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IN THE SHADOW OF THE WTC

Coming up out of a south Manhattan subway on a bright Tuesday morning, Chris Meyer confronted the darkest sight of his life: a jetliner colliding with a skyscraper. It was time for an instant decision: should he flee the horror—or confront it with all the prayer he could muster?

Through a spiritual lens—a photo gallery

A new Sentinel feature debuts: Photographers offer images of spiritual uplift.

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Anthology of classic articles II

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From Pregnancy and childbirth

For expectant mothers

The more fully we accept the spiritual nature of birth, the more effortlessly we can demonstrate that nothing has occurred from which one needs to recover.

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Duncan Martin unfolds his easel—and his thoughts—on a craggy Maine beach, as he prepares to translate the spirituality of landscape onto canvas.

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A riff on joy

Joy—we all want it. The key to getting it realizing it's a spiritual quality, not a thing.

Swimming with the jellyfish ... and God

ONE day I went to the beach with my family.
"Gleaning" or "stealing"? Would a harvest by either name taste as good? This woman let her Sunday School students test her ethics.

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A spiritual perspective on politics

We've gathered a variety of guests for this series, each with wonderful spiritual insights and proof that these spiritual ideas are effective—even for something that looms large, like politics.

From Faculties indestructible

MAN'S DIVINE HERITAGE

Man's divine heritage as the son of God is not a promise, but is the present fact; it is one's true state of being.

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From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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Compassion on the Green Line

One woman dared to break the circumference of discomfort to help an unconscious subway rider.
Realizing that God is the one Mind and intelligence is the kind of spiritual understanding that helped bring the author's friend Lola out of a mental institution.
Perhaps the real choice is not between pursuing every promise of a cure and protecting every embryo.

Mental decline is surmountable

As the light of God shines on each of us, it shows that gaps in consciousness like memory loss and Alzheimer's disease are not insurmountable.
A Sentinel staff editor explains how the key to her healing, after decades of seasonal allergies, was learning not to react—to find a spiritual stillness that would bring grace to everyday events.

Under pressure? Pray!

In double overtime between the underdog and the top-seeded soccer team—it all came down to a shootout. Abby prayed, stepped up to take the last kick, and ...