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Where Does Morality Come From?
By Zach Young for KidSpirit's Ethics and Morality issue.
What are morals and where do they come from?
Is morality like the laws of physics, ironclad dicta from nature? Or is morality like lang…
Welcome to the Short & Sweet Spirituality Blog
This blog grows from seeds planted by poet Mark Nepo, when he called Mary Ann and me "wisdom keepers" who are curating and interpreting the wisdom of humankind. After 50 years of reviewing and colle…
What We Think after 2017
In its December 22 - December 29, 2017 print issue, The Week sums up the odd mixture of trends, events, and cultural phenomena of the last year as seen through a potpourri of polls. Here are some of…
The Universal Reach of Character Development
KIP charter schools are offering teachers, children, and parents pragmatic and adventuresome ways to talk about and develop character. Their approach is based on the research of Dr. Martin Seligman …
Welcome to My Commonplace Book
A Commonplace Book is an annotated personal anthology. The curator gathers material that strikes his or her fancy: excerpts from books, quotes, poems, lines from movies, lyrics from songs, newspaper…
The Remarkable Cinematic Legacy of Australian Director Paul Cox
Paul Cox, one of Australia's finest and most sensitive film directors, died recently of liver cancer at the age of 76. He was often described as the father of independent cinema in Australia. Cox wa…
The Real Trick in Life
Literary Wisdom
An apology is the superglue of life.
It can repair just about anything.
— Lynn Johnson, author of young adult fiction
The Oxford Word of 2019
The word of the year for 2019 is "Climate Emergency," according to Oxford Dictionaries. Last year, that honor went to "Toxic."
Climate emergency is defined as "a situation in which urgent action …
The International Word of the Year
Oxford Dictionaries has chosen "post-truth" as its international word of 2016. It is an adjective "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping publ…