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A Prayer of Gratitude for Those Looking After Rivers
Creator God, we give you hearty thanks for the work of Living Lands & Waters (livinglandsandwaters.org), the only industrial-scale river cleanup organization in the world.
Fact: The crew of LL&W…
A Prayer for Forgiveness of Our Daily Pollutions
Global warming, notes this article by Jon Queally on CommonDreams.org, is making the world hot and dry and also cold and wet. It snowed last week in Jerusalem. China is enduring its coldest winter i…
What You Do
Literary Wisdom
There's something to be said for sitting still and letting things clear, the way morning fog burns off the lake.
— George Witte, American poet
Medical Wisdom
The small am…
Meatless Monday Movement
The Meatless Monday campaign was started in 2003 by an advertising whiz and the John Hopkins School of Public Health to market dietary change. The idea is to cut out meat one day a week to improve h…
Prayer for the People of the Philippines
Typhoon Haiyan, which slammed into six central Philippine islands on Friday, November 8, 2013, is the strongest typhoon of the year and one of the strongest storms on record. It also appears to be t…
Our World: An Interdependent Web
By Anna Zimmer in the KidSpirit Climate Change issue.
I was not raised in a family where religion played a big role.
I have always known that both my parents were Christians at one point in th…
Bathing with Trees
In Buddhism, trees have long been appreciated as spiritual teachers and companions. After all, Gautama Siddhartha was enlightened while sitting under a Bodhi tree. In Thailand, forest monks perform …
A Prayer for Victims and Families of Earthquakes in Iran
Two earthquakes in northwest Iran on Saturday, August 11, 2012, have killed 300 people and injured 2,600 more, according to reports from Reuters and other news agencies.
The first quake registere…
Holiness in the Ordinary
Hindu Wisdom
When a person has let go of attachments, when the mind is rooted in wisdom, everything they do is worship.
— The Bhagavad Gita
Devotional Wisdom
We aren't just saying our pr…
Bottled Water or Tap Water?
In an ethically revealing article from Truthout.org, Adam Hudson presents a hard-hitting overview of the battle raging between the U.S. National Parks and the bottled water industry (Nestle's Arrowh…