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Patience & Courtesy & Airplane Travel
We don't fly very often but when we do we are extremely aware of the many and varied chances to do spiritual practices before and during a flight. Here are a few of them, which we recommend to you f…
Hearts Across the Divide
This post has been contributed by Susan Strouse, a retired Lutheran minister who is author of The INTRAfaith Conversation and an organizer of an initiative called Hearts Across the Divide: Reclaimin…
Feeling Fully Alive
Psychological Wisdom
Children are messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but have long since forgotten.
— Alice Miller in Full Esteem Ahead by Diane and Julia Loomans
Cultural Wisdom
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A Prayer for Peace and Justice
Hope for the World, we pray that you might break the chains of hatred, prejudice, and fear that keep people enslaved to the violence that almost destroyed the United States during the Civil War and …
Prayers for Peace in Syria
The Obama Administration has asked the U.S. Congress to pass a resolution authorizing military strikes against Syria. The administration claims that in the ongoing civil war in Syria, the gover…
The Documented Life
Sherry Turkle has been studying people's use of mobile technology for 15 years. In this article in the New York Times she reflects on a new way of life: "I share, therefore I am." But now what we wa…
Civility Brushed Aside
"America has always harbored virulent strains of coarseness and cruelty and political campaigns are customarily bitter mudslinging affairs," writes Teddy Wayne in an article in The New York Times. H…
Ambassadors for Civility
"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our spirituality is revealed to family, friends, neighbors, classmates, colleagues, and strangers…
Unleashing America's Shadow
"With media complicity, Trump has unleashed the beast that has long resided not far from the American hearth, from those who started a Civil War to preserve the right to enslave a fellow human to th…
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…