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What Fulfillment Means to Me
By Nathan Zhang for KidSpirit's Fulfillment issue.
There are 800 kilometers between the cities of Beijing and Kaifeng, a lengthy gap mercifully shortened by the invention of rail. What was origin…
The New Emily Posts
Have you given up on the hope that old-fashioned manners and courtesy can have a place in the digital world? In an article in The New York Times, Alex Williams writes about the efforts of "a new gen…
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…
Skimming & Sharing
In an article in The New York Times, Karl Taro Greenfield is quite astonished to discover that more and more people are not reading books, newspapers, or magazines anymore but instead are picking up…
The Dolly Mama’s Guide to Democratic Meetings
This post has been contributed by Donna Schaper, senior minister at Judson Memorial Church in New York City. She is the author of numerous books, including Sabbath Keeping.
I sometimes call my …
Loving Friends with Alzheimer’s
As a process theologian I believe in the primacy of moments. Yes, we live our lives year to year, week to week, day to day. But most deeply, I believe, we live from moment to moment.
I learned th…
Improve Your Health through Face-to Face Connections
One definition of spirituality is the art of making connections. Separation is best avoided as a stumbling block to human flourishing. In an article in The New York Times, Barbara L. Frederickson po…
A Word to the Wise
Spiritual Wisdom
Disease and healing are not just physiological processes. They are spiritual detonations.
— Marc Ian Barasch in The Healing Path
A Meditation on the Animals of Australia
Ecologists at the University of Australia in Sydney estimate that nearly 480 million mammals, birds, and reptiles have been killed by the bush fires sweeping the state of New South Wales, according …
A Better Way to Fall
This eye-opening article was first published by the Wellcome Trust in MosaicScience.com.
Falls kill more than 32,000 Americans every year. The figure leaps to 420,000 when putting a global focus …