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Exploring The Sympathizer
Themes and practices for Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer-Prize-winning social satire.
Welcome to KidSpirit Youth Voices on S&P
Young people are brimming with vision and prophetic wisdom, and their voices are an essential part of conversations about spiritual life. Yet rarely are they invited to share their insight with othe…
Zeera and Kichri in the Digital Age
By Ayla Schultz, for KidSpirit's Speed of Now issue.
I settle down for dinner with my family. Pots of steaming and fragrant dahl, rotis, chicken, and pale brown rice sit at the center of the …
Through the Eyes of Hope
By Steffany Melgarejo for KidSpirit's Society and the Individual Issue
Everyone has different experiences and stories, and therefore a very different perspective on life.
Observing the daily …
To Be Me
By Satya Shaw for Kidspirit's Fear and Anxiety Issue.
I’m an 11-year-old boy growing up in Brooklyn, New York, and although my mom and dad have given me many ways to handle fear and anxiety, I…
This Changes Everything
Heard about the Internet's creepy next wave? If you haven't, Sue Halpern's coverage of four recent books on the subject gives you a front-row seat on the spectacle that is slowly and quietly unfoldi…
The U.N. Report on Climate Change Is a Call to Action for Spiritual Activists
The recently released UN report "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability" makes it clear that the effects of global warming are already here with food shortages, droughts, and vi…
The Meme as Meme
In an article on nautil.us, Abby Rabinowitz explores the many uses and meanings of the meme, one of the most popular forms of viral Internet phenomena. The website Know Your Meme defines it as "a pi…
Praying for Our Part in Preserving the Amazon Rainforest
Photo courtesy of pixundfertig at Pixabay.com
The Amazon's tropical rainforests — often described as "the Earth's lungs" because they generally draw in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen —…
Ever Deeper: A Poem for My Grandfather
By Will Hodgkinson for KidSpirit's Heritage Issue.
A shimmering pool of knowledge;
Scintillating wisdom —
foraged from 85 fecund years