All posts tagged: Soul

Meghan Markle Says She Poured Her “Heart and Soul” Into As Ever: “It’s Not Just Jam”

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[ad_1] On Friday, Meghan Markle’s lifestyle company, As Ever, will be releasing a new slate of products. This week, the duchess told Skims cofounder Emma Grede that she has been working to make sure they won’t all sell out in an hour, like they did in April when the brand’s virtual store first went live. In an episode of Aspire with Emma Grede that dropped Tuesday, Meghan explained that she has been planning to offer “exponentially” more As Ever products this time around. After the April launch, Meghan and her team started working to expand their offerings. “There were decisions to be made,” she said. “What can our offering be at this point that is larger than what sold out in that first run? As a seasonal drop, I think that was really important. To say, ‘Let’s get it back, but let’s get it back in a much bigger way.’” A spokesperson for the brand confirmed that more products would be released on the As Ever website at 11 am ET/11 am PT on Friday, …

In new book, Adam Sobsey retraces his ancestors’ exodus and finds his Jewish soul

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[ad_1] (RNS) — Passover is about memory. The central commandment at the traditional seder feast is to remember the exodus, the flight of the ancient Israelites from slavery to freedom. Adam Sobsey’s new book, “A Jewish Appendix: A Memoir,” isn’t about Passover, but it is about tracing the journey his great-grandparents took in 1910 from a small town in northeastern Romania to Ellis Island and eventually to Pittsburgh. Sobsey, 54, never talked to his great-grandparents about that exodus. In fact, they refused to talk about it to anyone. His parents drifted away from their Jewish observance, and he was left with a Jewish identity in name only — sort of like his appendix that was surgically removed in 2018. But the following year, Sobsey and his wife, Heather, took “a sort of speculative ancestry tour” to the place his great-grandparents on his mother’s side came from. The book recounts that three-month journey, which also took Sobsey to Albania, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Greece, a tour he realized later, spanned of the borders of the Ottoman …

A Battle for the Soul of the West

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[ad_1] For President Donald Trump, last month’s spat at the White House with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky was “great television.” To the rest of us, it was a horrifying realization of our worst fears: a real-time crumbling of the Euro-American alliance, which has been the bedrock of the international order since 1945. Europeans have recently been discovering a new resolve for standing on their own. Perhaps the most candid response came from the European Union’s foreign-policy chief, Kaja Kallas, who said that “the free world needs a new leader.” There is plenty of good sense in the EU taking a resolute stand. The need for “strategic autonomy” is not only the preoccupation of French President Emmanuel Macron; it has been part of the bloc’s codified global strategy since 2016 as well. Now Trump is fulminating against the EU, claiming that it was “formed in order to screw the United States,” and European autonomy has become an urgent priority. But to reduce this moment to a Euro-American clash, let alone to resort to clichés about the …

Dividing Soul from Spirit – OpentheWord.org

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[ad_1] Credit: John Price/unsplash.com By Stephen Phifer The Importance of this Two-edged Sword When it comes to a surgery this delicate, dealing with invisible things like soul and spirit, a special, sharp blade is required! Hebrews 4:12 NKJV –13 NIVFor the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword,piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow,and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncoveredand laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. “Don’t run with that kitchen knife!” mother warned.  “Be careful with that paring knife.  Cut away from your body when you peel those potatoes,” she further instructed us when we were little helpers in the kitchen.  Sharp blades have to be handled with care to do the job for which they were intended.  There is one particular blade that is so sharp it will divide soul from spirit, joint from marrow, and even our thoughts …

Where to Buy Work Clothes That Won’t Crush Your Soul in 2025

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[ad_1] What started out as a blue-collar workwear label decades before any Westfield existed, Madewell has turned into a modern fashion brand that mixes its denim roots with contemporary classics. Think button-down shirts, chinos, hoodies, and even a decent suit here and there. Madewell Suede Leather Boxy Shirt-Jacket Madewell Roebling Two-Button Blazer in Italian Fabric COS Best For: Minimalist design, muted colorways Price Point: $$ The COS label is known for its streamlined aesthetic in the vein of lauded labels like Lemaire and The Row for a fraction of the designer prices. If you’re after modern overshirts that look more at home in a brutalist art gallery than a log cabin, or billowy trousers emblematic of the quiet luxury aesthetic, COS is the place to go. COS Unstructured Merino Wool-Blend Blazer COS Paneled Wool V-Neck Sweater COS Wool-Blend Tapered Pants COS Relaxed Boil-Wool Overshirt The Euro Upgrades NN07 Best For: Business casual with Scandinavian twists Price Point: $$ NN07 may be best known for its fashion contributions to The Bear, but the viral jacket is …

The Dark Side of Chicken Soup for the Soul

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[ad_1] This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Fact-Checking Chicken Soup for the Soul Readers who grew up in the ’90s and early 2000s will likely remember the ubiquity of Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Each installment of the series, originally created and curated by motivational speakers Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, was packed short, inspirational, almost universally dubious anecdotes. And there was an installment for (almost) everyone; a Quartz piece from 2019 documented at least 276 editions, with offerings for women, teens, pre-teens, mothers, nurses, golfers, parents of kids on the spectrum, wine lovers, chocolate lovers, NASCAR fans, Canadians, cancer survivors, dieters, military spouses, people going through menopause, brides, writers, teachers, and on and on. Turns out, this self-help series helped no one more than its authors, who, after somewhere between dozens and hundreds of rejections (depending on when you asked), got …

Sam Moore, who sang Soul Man in the duo Sam & Dave, dies | Ents & Arts News

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[ad_1] Sam Moore, who sang Soul Man and other 1960s hits in the legendary Sam & Dave duo, has died aged 89. Moore, who influenced musicians including Michael Jackson, Al Green and Bruce Springsteen, died on Friday in Coral Gables, Florida, due to complications while recovering from surgery, his publicist Jeremy Westby said. No additional details were immediately available. Moore was inducted with Dave Prater, who had died in a 1988 car crash, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. The duo, at the Memphis, Tennessee-based Stax Records, transformed the “call and response” of gospel music into a frenzied stage show and recorded some of soul music’s most enduring hits, including Hold On, I’m Comin’. Image: Sam Moore performs with Bruce Springsteen in 2006. Pic: Reuters Many of their records were written and produced by the team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter and featured the record label’s house band Booker T & the MGs. Sam & Dave faded after their 1960s heyday but Soul Man hit the charts again in the …

Cosmologist Paul Davies: Does the soul have an afterlife?

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[ad_1] That’s the question Robert Lawrence Kuhn asked of cosmologist Paul Davies at Closer to Truth last January (January 2, 2024 9:54 min): Specifically, Is there a soul? Is there an afterlife? The two questions are likely related. No soul, no afterlife. Is there any evidence for either? Any argument? However, the two questions—soul and afterlife—might be separated. A soul but no afterlife? Or an afterlife but no soul? According to science, you cannot have either. But is science the last word? Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist who has authored a number of books, including What’s Eating the Universe? (University of Chicago Press 2021) and The Goldilocks Engima (Allen Lane, 2006). ≻──────────≺ Davies begins by defending deism — God exists but does not interfere Kuhn: You’re very [4:51] comfortable with the existence of meaning and purpose in a universe in which the God built all all of the elegance and majesty into the originating laws to have them go on their own so to speak without his or her active intervention. …

Soul Survives Death? ER Doc Sam Parnia Faces Skeptical Questions

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[ad_1] Earlier this year, Robert Lawrence Kuhn hosted ER specialist Sam Parnia on Closer to Truth to talk about why Parnia, based on his ER experience, believes that consciousness survives clinical death. (Feb 11, 2024, 9:39) It seems a somewhat tense interview. Parnia, author of Lucid Dying (Hachette 2024), held his own against his skeptical interviewer, principally by defending very narrow, research-based ground. One aspect of that defense is deeply significant, as we shall see. Parnia starts by clarifying what he means by “soul.” Parnia: Nobody can deny that they have a [1:36] sense of self. Robert is Robert. Sam is Sam … I [3:05] think any rational being would not deny that there is a soul, in the sense that you wouldn’t deny that you are a conscious thinking being. That’s really what the soul is. There’s nothing more to it. If other people have different definitions of soul, that’s not my definition, that’s not what I’m talking about. The soul is the self. So scientifically yes I think we all accept that it …

Soul singer Jalen Ngonda: ‘I don’t want to write something I can’t feel’

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[ad_1] Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free Jalen Ngonda was busted. He’d been belting “Baby Love” by The Supremes, dancing around the living room of his childhood home in Wheaton, Maryland, when his mum walked in. “You can sing!” she exclaimed. Until then, the painfully shy teenager hadn’t shared his talent with anyone. But 15 years later, the rest of the world is beginning to catch on, too. Ngonda’s debut album, Come Around and Love Me, was released last year to effusive reviews. A gorgeous collection of sepia-toned soul, R&B, rock and doo-wop, it’s the perfect vehicle for his extraordinary vocals. Reminiscent of Marvin Gaye or Smokey Robinson, it’s smooth and supple, sliding across buttery melodies and lifting to a mellifluous falsetto. Songs such as “If You Don’t Want My Love” are backed by jangly guitars and shuffling percussion; “What a Difference She Made” – a …