Word: soul
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...what the company needed didn't line up. Intellectually, he knew it was that simple, but the rejection stung, especially coming on the heels of having lost his job the week before. "You've just been told, We don't want you. That has a crushing effect on your soul," says Ward. "Then as you go out and look for a job, most of the jobs you look at you're not going to get. You're going to be told no over and over again...
That would fairly describe Rabbi Stanton's journey. Her childhood in Ohio was a conventional one, but, as a self-described "old soul," Stanton says she was propelled early on by a search for spiritual nourishment, which led her far beyond her Pentecostal roots. She was attracted initially to Eastern religions and Evangelicalism, until her family moved to a predominantly Jewish suburb of Cleveland. Curious about the mezuzahs in the doorways of neighboring homes - along with other unfamiliar Jewish customs - Stanton turned for guidance to a Catholic uncle who occasionally worshipped at a local temple...
...Inquisition. I saw it firsthand as a child in Indonesia, where devout Christians worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly Muslim country. That is the spirit we need today. People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, heart, and soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive, but it is being challenged in many different ways. (See pictures of Obama in the Middle East...
...soul of a swimmer,” Lewis says of the Princeton graduate, who swam for his alma mater and regularly swims to this day. “He has a very low heart rate, he does not get excited, and he’s extremely steady, deliberate, and non-reactive.” As Pilbeam observes of Smith, “You rarely see him in any mode other than calm...
...have been raising and debating many questions of importance to Harvard’s institutional well being. (Lewis even wrote a book sharing his opinions on Harvard’s direction as a university—he tellingly titled it, “Excellence Without a Soul.”) These voices, though, seem few are far between, despite the fact that there is little reason to stay silent. The University is not run by a bunch of ayatollahs, as the uneventfullness of my brief foray into public tactlessness seems to show...