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The Wholeness of Nature By Katie Reis in KidSpirit's Myth & Magic issue. I’m not a religious person. I was baptized a Catholic but slowly realized that many of Catholicism’s beliefs and principles did not fit my own…
The Art of Living Well  Unitarian Wisdom Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. . . . Floating down …
The Future of Spirituality David Bryce Yaden is a scientific researcher who studies the psychology and neuroscience of spiritual experiences; he prepared this essay for Huffingtonpost.com. Here are the four developments he se…
Grief Takes a Road Trip My mother died. Those three words are hard to write, let alone process. For me, the finality of never hearing my mother’s voice again or having the chance to talk over old issues or discover somet…
Aging and the Wisdom of Trees “From wonder into wonder, existence opens.” —Lao Tzu I dreaded turning sixty. For months before my birthday, I imagined a fire-breathing dragon lurking around the corner, waiting to …
The Wolf Is the Gift By Lyla Rae Cheary Change is the biggest Baddest Wolf
Why Not Paint Your Dream? Over two centuries ago, a 19-year-old man left France to follow his dream of joining the fight for freedom in the American Revolution. Against the will of the French King, the Marquis de Lafayette p…
"J" is for Justice What is Justice Like? ​ Bread. A clean sky. Active peace. A woman's voice singing somewhere. The army disbanded. The harvest abundant. The wound healed. The child wanted. The prisoner freed…
Practicing Democracy in Your Journal This post has been contributed by Judith L. Favor, who is rooted and grounded in Quaker tradition and contemplative practice. She is retired from pastoral UCC ministry in San Francisco and teaching …
The Scope of Spiritual Literacy I'm recommending that everyone in Congress take a course in "religious and spiritual literacy." But why stop there? Wouldn't it be nice if people all over the world were religiously literate: tha…