Getting Detached from Our Unhealthy Attachments
An old ethnic joke tells the story of the grandmother who is walking on the beach with her young grandson. Suddenly, she looks around and sees the boy a hundred feet out at sea,...
Membership How To: Maximize Your Member Profile
Maximize Your Member Profile
We are going to start sharing tips and "how to" posts on how to maximize your membership on the new site. For those of you who have been with us for...
Hineni. Your call to the Divine is a response to the call of the...
In the Old Testament story, when Isaac was called by God, he answered, “Hineni.” Translated from the Hebrew, hineni means, “Here I am, for you called me.”
In the Bible, the word hineni is used...
2012 Writing Contest
TIFERET: A Journal of Spiritual Literature offers monetary awards in the categories of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
If I Knew Then What I Know Now….
I would stop racing, stop competing – cuz it’s not a race.
I would devote WAY fewer journal pages to planning and scheming and WAY more to free associating, dreaming and doodling – the kind...
Reading, Intimacy, Angels of Death
Reading, I think, is a fundamentally spiritual experience. The phenomenologist Georges Poulet once remarked that, when we read, another person’s “I” enters into our own souls. Think about it: when we read the word...
Madeleine L’Engle: My Writing and Spiritual Guide
I first met Madeleine L’Engle in a writers’ workshop she was leading at a New York City convent when I was trying to sell my first novel. She was very complimentary about my writing...
Your one wild and precious life
The unconventional rule-breaker Chris Guillebeau has written a book - The Art of NonConformity - that has struck such a deep chord in me.
A chord that is resonating down to the inner cave where...
Tiferet Testimonial – Fred Lamotte
Fred's Profile
More about Fred:
Alfred K. LaMotte (Fred) is an interfaith chaplain at the Evergreen College in Olympia WA. I also teach World Religions and Philosophy as college credits to soldiers deployed in our Army,...