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Powerful Patience
By Marwa Alalawi in the KidSpirit Power issue.
Flickering streetlights streamed into my aunt’s bedroom as she hushed my cries with gentle strokes, tucking me into a sea of white linen.
It w…
Making Peace
African-American Wisdom
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
-- Maya Angelou, African-American poet, writer, a…
Peace
By Samantha Singh for KidSpirit's Society and the Individual Issue.
Peace. It’s an unusual word in this bizzare time. Some say it means that war is not present, but this word has more depth tha…
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…
Cyberwar Is Now Official
On June 14, 2016, NATO announced that it was designating cyberspace as an "operational domain" for war alongside land, sea, and air. Jens Stoltenberg told a press conference: "It means that we will …
After Paris - Thoughts from Rabbi Lerner
Rabbi Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun and chair of the interfaith and secular Network of Spiritual Progressives, shares his thoughts on applying love, caring, nonviolence, and generosity to the…
A Tiny Prayer for Ukraine
In a pre-dawn televised address on February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine as Russian forces invaded the country from Russia and Belarus in the east and north and…
A Prayers for Three Muslim Students Killed in North Carolina
Holy God of Openness and Peace, our hearts are broken as we mourn the deaths of three Muslim university students who were shot to death in their home in North Carolina. Their faith led Deah Barakat …
A Prayer for the World's Conscience
May 15, 2018 was the 70th anniversary of Yawm an-Nakba, which translates from Arabic as "Day of the Catastrophe." It commemorates the displacement of 700,000 Palestinians from their homeland when th…
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 …