mindfulness
There’s an app for that: Christian mindfulness, meditation apps find their moment
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 15, 2020
(RNS) — Many apps have reported spikes in searches for meditations on fear and anxiety since the pandemic started.
Are yoga and mindfulness in schools religious?
By Candy Gunther Brown — May 13, 2019
(The Conversation) — Yoga and mindfulness could become the fourth 'R' of public education. But up for debate is whether the 'R' in this case stands for relaxation or religion.
Why a 14th-century mystic appeals to today’s ‘spiritual but not religious’ Americans
By Joel Harrington — December 10, 2018
(The Conversation) — Once censured by a papal decree, Meister Eckhart, a 14th-century Dominican friar famous for his sermons on the direct experience of God, is again finding popular appeal.
How Buddhist mindfulness can awaken the church
By guest — August 7, 2017
(RNS) Many Christians are finding mindfulness practice to be not just compatible but complimentary to their faith. They discover within these Buddhist-derived practices not only a key to renewal and holy living, but also a doorway to a neglected Christian tradition.
Voters must strain to hear beyond the white noise of their souls
By Lauren Markoe — August 19, 2016
(RNS) We need to be listening through the noise. We need to be listening for God.
We’re meditating all wrong, says ‘Buddha from Brooklyn’
By Jay Michaelson — June 4, 2015
(RNS) Westerners are missing the point of meditation, according to one of the first American teachers of meditation, Brooklyn-born Lama Surya Das. He explains in his new book, "Make Me One With Everything."
How the happiness U-curve echoes the Buddha’s teachings (COMMENTARY)
By Arthur E. Farnsley II — April 22, 2015
(RNS) I have not become a Buddhist. I am too attached to several of my desires, unwilling to let them go. But I see the structure of life bending me toward this wisdom and applying some form of this discipline to me.
Buddhists aim to bring mindfulness to the ballot box
By Daniel Burke — November 5, 2012
(RNS) The mindfulness movement has seeped into Silicon Valley, Capitol Hill, and even the United States Military Academy at West Point. Next stop: the voting booth. By Daniel Burke.
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