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Vegetarian Summerfest

Wednesday, July 8 - Sunday, July 12
Join authors Patti Brietman, Michael Greger, Melanie Joy, Victoria Moran, and Kerrie Saunders at this annual NAVS event.

Sacred Selfishness

Friday, July 10 - Saturday, July 11
Bud Harris, author of The Fire and the Rose will be leading workshops on cultivating love, authenticity, and substance.

Minding Animals, Australia

Sunday, July 12 - Sunday, July 19
Carol J. Adams, co-author of How to Eat like a Vegetarian Even if You Never Want to Be One, will be presenting at this Newcastle conference.

Animal Rights Conference 2009

Thursday, July 16 - Monday, July 20
Join FARM in Los Angeles, and catch up with Lantern authors Judy Carman, Karen Davis, pattrice jones, Melanie Joy, and Will Tuttle.

Graymoor Prayer & Meditation Retreat

Friday, July 17, 6:00pm - Sunday, July 19, 1:30pm
Tom S., Fr. Thomas Keating's interviewer in Divine Therapy & Addiction, will be speaking about deepening the 11th Step experience for Twelve Step members.

World Peace Diet Retreat, Mendocino

Sunday, August 23 - Tuesday, August 25
Learn to be a World Peace Diet facilitator in beautiful Mendocino, CA, following the Vibrant Living Expo.

World Peace Diet Retreat, Cincinnati

Friday, October 23 - Sunday, October 25
As a part of the The World Peace Yoga Conference, there will be a World Peace Diet facilitator training. Participants include Lantern authors Judy Carman and Sharon Gannon.

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News at Lantern

Bruce Friedrich on Jesus Radicals 6/30/09

Jesus Radicals, the Christian anarchist site, has problems with PETA, but still admires Bruce Friedrich, The Animal Activist's Handbook, and Bruce's Progressive interview.

Help for Psychologists & Sociologists 6/25/09

Social psychologists, have no fear: Sociology Compass has put together a syllabus and reading list for your 'Animals and Sociology' course. And of course, you'll be using Lantern's Social Creatures as a text!

Does tofu cause dementia? 6/23/09

What artificial sweetener is best? Are avocados friend or foe? Find out the answer to these and hundreds more questions on Dr. Michael Greger's 2009 nutrition double dvd!

Love-Powered Diet on Diet.com 6/22/09

Victoria Moran and The Love-Powered Diet are featured on Diet.com, with tips galore.

Our Future is Vegan 6/12/09

Will Tuttle was a guest blogger on Kris Carr's popular Crazy Sexy Life.

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Being an Activist

You don't need a special day to begin to change the world. Just these books....

Now Available


Divine Therapy and Addiction Thomas Keating
Divine Therapy and Addiction

Thomas Keating reflects on the wisdom and legacy of Alcoholics Anonymous’ Twelve-Step Method and its connections to, and similarities with, the Christian mystical traditions of Centering Prayer and lectio divina.
Step One
Doing the Steps in Depth
 
Spirituality, Contemplation, and Transformation Thomas Keating, and others
Spirituality, Contemplation, and Transformation

These writings contribute to the growing body of literature on centering prayer—its practice, theory, and applications—and offer valuable entry points for all those interested in deepening their spiritual practice and fostering a more profound relationship with the Divine.
Table of Contents
Introduction
 
Centering Prayer and the Healing of the Unconscious Fr. Murchadh O Madagain
Centering Prayer and the Healing of the Unconscious

Fr. Murchadh Fr. Ó Madagáin unpacks the processes at work in centering prayer and clears up some of the common misunderstandings that surround it, while showing how it is rooted in practices of the Desert Fathers, St. John of the Cross, and St. Teresa of Avila.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One
 
Manifesting God Thomas Keating
Manifesting God

Thomas Keating explores the many facets of Centering Prayer, offers advice on how to develop and deepen the practice, and describes the transformation that can take place in the "inner room" through a daily practice of twenty or thirty minutes of this effective form of meditative prayer.
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By the Word of Their Testimony Fr. Murchadh O Madagain
By the Word of Their Testimony

In this stirringly honest autobiography, Fr. Ó Madagáin shares his story of how he felt called to serve God and others through the priesthood. He describes his experiences at Medjugorje and Lourdes and how he was moved by the extraordinary sacrifices of individuals both there and in Rome, where he completed his theological education.
Chapter One
 

Coming Soon


An Offering of Leaves Ruth Lauer-Manenti,
Introduction by David Life
An Offering of Leaves

Jivamukti Yoga "Lady Ruth's" collected dharma talks from classic Hindu texts. Composed with humor and sensitivity, An Offering of Leaves is the perfect gift for the aspiring yoga practitioner and any spiritual seeker wanting to live with thoughtfulness and integrity.
Foreword, by David Life
Introduction
Pickled Peppers
Handmade Perfection
 
The Violent Person Raymond B. Flannery, Jr., Ph.D., FAPM
The Violent Person

Written for these individuals as well as the general reader in jargon-free language by one of the foremost experts in the world on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Here is a book for anyone with a concern for, and an interest in, the mechanisms of human violence, stress at the breaking point, and the workings of the human brain. This book is written to save lives.
Table of Contents
Chapter2
 
Walking with Wisdom Nan C. Merrill
Walking with Wisdom

Walking with Wisdom is a stunning sequence of twenty meditations for our time.
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He Walked Through Walls Myriam Miedzian
He Walked Through Walls

In this richly detailed novelization of a true story, Myriam Miedzian allows her father Henyek Miedzianagora to relate a life of sorrow and yet survival. To round off this remarkable family saga, Myriam’s daughter, Nadia Malinovich, a professor of Jewish history in Paris, fills in the historical and cultural background of her grandfather’s life.
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Yifa
Venerable Yifa is part of a Buddhist order seeking to make their practice relevant to contemporary life.

In her new book, Discernment, she explores what it means to nurture consideration, deliberativeness, and acumen. Read the Introduction.

Yifa is also the author of Authenticity and The Tender Heart.

Lantern Through the Seasons Video

Lantern Through the Seasons
See all of our videos, including our video of Lantern's garden through the seasons, here.

In Memory of the Dead

Union Square Protest Slideshow
The number of American soldiers killed in the war in Iraq has passed 4,200. See our slideshow on a display in Union Square, New York City, on September 1, 2004, during the Republican National Convention, when the number of deaths was less than a quarter of that amount. (See all our photo galleries here.)

A Sacred Duty

A Sacred Duty
Richard Schwartz, author of Judaism and Global Survival and Judaism and Vegetarianism, is the inspiration for, and guide to, a wonderful new documentary, called A Sacred Duty. You can watch it here.

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