One Spirit

by Griffin, Jean Latz; Gaunt, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780976861034
• ISBN10: 0976861038
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-14
• Publisher: Cyberink

Summary

This grown-up picture book of Creation - good for adults and children - celebrates our diversity, embraces evolution, and looks forward to an eternal, joyful afterlife in unity with the One Spirit. Families who value diversity and whose concepts of God are somewhat untraditional will find "One Spirit" an ideal and gentle way to introduce children to the ideas of creation, life, death and eternity.

Author Biography

Jean Latz Griffin Jean Latz Griffin was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune for more than 20 years. She covered the human and political side of AIDS as it emerged as a defining issue of the late 20th century, the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, and the tragedy of children killing children. She was a member of a team of reporters whose 1993 series, "Killing Our Children," was a Pulitzer finalist.Griffin has written about spirituality for the Tribune, Common Boundary and www.beliefnet.com. An article she wrote on Buddhism in America has been reprinted in An Anthology of Living Religions, published by Prentice Hall in 2000 and used as a college textbook. An article on gay and lesbian spirituality was reprinted in ôVashti's Voices,ö a New Zealand journal of feminist spirituality. She has had more than 2,000 articles published under her byline.Griffin was raised a Catholic and considers it to be her home religion. She has studied and practiced Buddhism and Taoism. She has a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of St. Francis in Joliet and a master's degree in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.After leaving the Tribune in 1997, Griffin started her own company, CyberINK, an independent publishing company as well as a communications firm with political and commercial clients. She is an adjunct journalism instructor at Roosevelt University in Chicago.Jean and her husband, Dennis J. Griffin, live in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and have three sons, Joseph, Timothy and Peter. In her free time she enjoys practicing and teaching Taoist Tai Chi and reconnecting with the violin-playing of her youth.Jane Gaunt Jane Gaunt has ôloved the arts always. Spirituality and creativity have always seemed synonymous to me. The God part of the human spirit seems to reside in that same creative, awe-struck part of my brain. A Bach violin concerto, a Degas pastel and a desert night view of the Milky Way inspire the same feelings. I have studied the human spirit more formally, but never take what I think I know very seriously.ö Gaunt has an MA from Chapman University in Orange, Calif., and is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She studied art at Harbor College, Cal State Long Beach and Copper Mountain College. She is married to John Griffin and is an addictions counselor at the Betty Ford Center.