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Practices for College Student Life
I first met Victor Akioyame when we worked together in the student affairs office at a small liberal arts university in California. We became close friends due to our shared interests and passion fo…
Isolated Diversity
Written by: Olga Phaedra Pouppis
In the Cypriot culture I have grown up in, “community” is perhaps one of the most important concepts.
Three Questions to Ask Yourself When Posting on Social Media
Much has been written recently about the ways that social media negatively impacts mental health and can impede political processes. Research has also shown, though, that social media can have posit…
Rising Above Borders
By Ammara Mohsin for KidSpirit’s Discovery and Progress issue.
It was with much excitement over the prospect of being able to visit a different country, albeit from afar, that I visited the Ind…
No Man's Land
By Heer Cheema for KidSpirit's Unity and Division issue.
They are restless, moving backward and forward, surrounded by a miasma of uncertainty and despair. Sleeping in airports, caught in transit…
Basketball Democracy
I have the great privilege of working with a group of kids at the church where I serve. The group is diverse: Every week we have kids of different ages, races, genders, and economic class background…
Warm Cheeks
By Husnaa Hashim in the KidSpirit Human Dignity issue.
I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
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Master of Many Trades
In this article in Aeon.com, Robert Twigger writes about the rise of the monopath in our society. The term refers to a person who focuses on one thing and becomes an expert. Such people are widely r…
Loyalty to Collective Breathing: A Yoga of World Solidarity
I feel fairly certain — as certain as I can feel — that when George Floyd couldn’t breathe, God couldn’t breathe either. What I mean is that George Floyd’s gasping for air was shared by an…
Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing
In an article for the Huffingtonpost.com, Dennis Merritt Jones (Your (Re)Defining Moments) uses this quotation from Rumi: "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will mee…