Tag archive for ‘spirituality’

  • Folk medicine can be a spiritual benefit for patients

    10/04/10 • (1)

    While assimilated members of the Valley’s Hmong population embrace Western medicine, many who fled Laos during the communist take-over of their government in the 1970s brought their traditional beliefs with them. At least one Fresno hospital is working with Hmong shamans to make room for folk medicine.

  • Solstice ceremony somber as Chumash pray for Gulf victims

    6/21/10 • (2)

    Mount Pinos, considered the “Center of the World” for native Chumash, is home to an annual summer solstice ceremony in celebration of Mother Earth. This year’s event was made solemn by tears and prayers for the healing of the Gulf of Mexico region, where oil gushing from BP’s failed well is affecting fish, birds and other sea creatures.

  • Come on people, now, smile and get happy

    4/24/10 • (0)

    Mind-Body Health Seminar at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital focuses on the power of happiness and laughter for stress reduction and longer life expectancy.

  • Free health seminar on the ‘Pursuit of Happiness’

    4/15/10 • (0)

    Combining spirituality, modern medicine and science, Chinmaya Mission Bakersfield and Bakersfield Memorial Hospital will hold their 2010 Mind-Body Health Seminar this Saturday, April 17. The free seminar is titled “Pursuit of Happiness.”

  • Explore the big questions of ‘Life, Death … and Thereafter’

    2/23/10 • (1)

    During the 40-day spiritual journey of Lent, Emmanuel Lutheran Church is inviting representatives from five world religions to explore questions of life, death and beyond. The series is open to the public every Wednesday night through March 24.

  • One man loses, another gains religion through reporting

    1/15/10 • (6)

    Former Bakersfield Californian religion reporter Louis Medina shares his insights on a visit this week by another former religion reporter, William Lobdell, author of “Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America — and Found Unexpected Peace.” Read how Medina experienced the opposite in Bakersfield — he found more of God.

  • Interfaith conference celebrates Gandhi

    10/04/09 • (1)

    Speakers representing Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Sikhism share a spirit of unity and religious tolerance at Bakersfield College.