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Chloe Anthony Wofford "Toni" Morrison
February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019
Toni Morrison died on Monday, August 5, 2019. Our cohort gathered on Wednesday, August 7, for a three-day intensive. With such a seismic loss, we shifted our…
A Virtual Living Room Conversation
Generally, when I consider online conversations, I think of stark polarization and echo chambers — people harshly judging others across differences or just connecting with those who are similar to…
Can Spiritual Practice Strengthen Democracy?
On November 19, 2019, students, staff, and faculty from the Graduate Theological Union and wider Berkeley, California, community came together for a workshop on democracy. Through rituals and conver…
Chilly Mornings, Warm Souls: Stories from the Prahran Winter Breakfast
Artwork by: Nikita Zinoviev
Written by: Vincent Chang
The dawn had barely broken.
"When Will Our Needs and Hopes Matter?"
"Democracy is more than a system of government; it is a way of life. We can assess the vitality of a democracy by how well it is serving the people's needs and hopes."
These opening lines from th…
The Whitney Plantation
Forty-six miles west of New Orleans, near Wallace, Louisiana, in St. John the Baptist Parish situated on the west bank of the Mississippi River, you will find The Whitney Plantation. It was establis…
The Ethics of the Interfaith Movement
By Akash Mehta in KidSpirit's The God Issue.
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What does it mean to live a good human life?
There, in a sentence, is perhaps the most i…
The "Right" Way to Pray
By Gracie Griffin in the KidSpirit Simplicity and Complexity issue.
Prayer is the limbo between the serenity of accepting the world’s chaos around you and the challenge of pursuing stillness in…
Slowing Down to Walk Contemplatively
I have always been amazed at how much more I notice when I slow down. A street that I have driven down looks so different by bike, and even more detail emerges when I am walking. Walking meditativel…
Reflection Harvest Ritual
For a gathering of our Ritual Salon in the early fall I wanted to find a way to get in touch with the season. Traditionally the fall is a time of celebrating the harvest: honoring seeds sown earlier…