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In the Jewish calendar cycle Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur are a time for renewal. Jewish tradition invites us to get our psycho-emotional and spiritual lives together in order to begin the New Year with clarity and liberation.

A popular viral video is making its way around social media.

Trust in God unconditionally. The Strength to resist temptation. Infinite forgiveness. Unity regardless of all our differences. These are beautiful concepts, but also ones that sometimes seem to have lost their position in daily life.

By 2030 it's estimated that close to one in four persons in Canada will at least 65 years old.

It’s that time of year for many of going back to or starting school, college, university, or other learning and training. And there are an abundance of continuing education/lifelong learning programs beginning as well. It’s a season for learning.

Over the years I have had numerous conversations with people about what is and isn’t spiritual. Some tell me they are not spiritual. Some say they don’t know what spiritual means or that the word is too vague and wishy-washy to mean anything at all.

Recently, I have noted again and again how much ways of being that I have long considered virtues seem to have fallen on tough times.

There is much in the news about breaking the glass ceiling of prejudice in the fight for equality of the sexes. Less known are the spiritual underpinnings of this movement and its history in the heart of Islam.

August has a wonderful sense of slow, languorous living. The days fold into longer warm evenings, a time to enjoy the celestial lightshow of the Perseid meteor showers or the storied constellations.

Leadership is being debated with ever greater vigor these days – whether it is business leadership, political leadership, religious leadership or social leadership.