by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 1, 2026 | Love, Sacred
Why magnificent people intercede with mercy and love. There is a woman I know who drives forty-five minutes each way, twice a week, to sit with her aging mother. Her mother doesn’t always recognize her anymore. She goes anyway. She brings her mother’s...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 1, 2026 | Joy, Love, Sacred, Spirituality
The greatest tragedy is not that magnificence is rare but we often fail to notice it until it is gone. I want to tell you about an average Tuesday when I took my tri-weekly adventure to Whole Foods. I was dancing at the meat counter to the Madonna they were blasting...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 1, 2026 | Men, Relationships, Sacred, Women
For every man who ever dreamed that a woman could adore this part of him. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. You’re looking at what may be my favorite chapter in this entire book. It’s all about one of the most treasured gifts life has ever given me....
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Mar 1, 2026 | Love, Men, Sacred
A love letter to the magnificence of ordinary men. Watch him for a moment. He doesn’t know you’re watching. He’s too absorbed in what he’s doing to notice. Maybe he’s crouched over a bicycle in the driveway, his hands moving with the...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Feb 18, 2026 | Joy, Love, Relationships, Sacred, Spirituality
The unexpected encounters with love and humanity that changed my life. When I was 16, I spent a fall weekend on a Church retreat on the South Side of Chicago with about 30 other teenagers. We stayed at Hyde Park Union Church with pastors from our local Church. We...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jan 31, 2026 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Fasting, Sacred, Spirituality
The New Science on Fasting For most of recorded human history, people fasted not because they understood the biology behind it, but because they discovered — through experience, through tradition, through the intimation of something ancient and reliable — that going...
