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...