Kimberly Burnham's Blog: Neurotheology: The Intersection of Mind, Body & Spirit

Gonzaga University is buying their first Torah for the small community of Jewish students, faculty, and staff members lead by Rabbi Elizabeth Goldstein.

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Research from second language learning indicates that when we learn a new language, even a few words, we make new connections in our brain.

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Familiarity helps us feel safe and included but it does not make us more creative and imaginative, being immersed in different cultures and surround by and interacting with people different from ourselves does that

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Peace is mentioned in many Bible verses. Here are just two, but with these two and others we can search out the word for peace in over 2000 languages.

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By Kimberly Burnham Poetry can help us reflect on and integrate our emotional lives. A recent study in Nursing Education Today noted, “Poetry writing helps students to develop writing craft and reflective skills. It encourages students to articulate often complex emotions associated with their professional worlds, thereby providing invaluable insights into the everyday lives of …

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By Kimberly Burnham In Rhodian, a language spoken on Rhodes, the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece the word “ktílos” or “κτίλος” means peaceful, tame, docile, gentle and domesticated as if those who are peaceful must also be docile. In English, the words “tame” and “peaceful” seem pretty different but in other languages tame is a …

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How good we feel when we wake up is correlated with how well we sleep and the contents of our dreams.

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s we move into a new year, let's consider what peace means to ourselves, to our friends and families, and our neighbors near and far.

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An underlying principle in Cymatics is that a community that engages with sound: music, singing, or drumming together, comes together on a cellular level.

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Jews and Christians are different and one way to understand each other is to ask questions. Sometimes, said Levine, we think, "yes, but shouldn't we already know this" and then we make stuff up because we think we understand it.

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