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S&P Open House / Birthday Celebration
The weekend of March 19 – 20, 2016 was quite a celebratory time for Spirituality & Practice. Patricia Carlson (Senior Editor/Program Director) and I (Creative Director) traveled from our respectiv…
Praying for the People of Indonesia after the Earthquake and Tsunami
On Friday, September 28, 2018, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia, triggering a tsunami with waves up to 10 feet high. Water toppled and swept away buildings in the coastal city of Palu, home …
Rituals of Our Lives
Unitarian Universalist Wisdom
From beginning to end, the rituals of our lives shape each hour, day, and year. . . . If you understand them, you may enrich them. In this way the habits of a lifeti…
Praise Song for the Pandemic
In times that strain our resources, our energy, and our resilience, we need refreshment of spirit more than ever. The following prayer by Christine Valters Paintner — an American poet and writer l…
Prayers and Practices for Victims of the Earthquake in Nepal
Update: Another earthquake, magnitufe-7.3, struck Nepal on May 12.
A devastating magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck Nepal on Saturday, April 25, that was also felt in India and Tibet. Another powerf…
One Last Letter for You, Santa
By Maria Christian for KidSpirit’s The Word issue.
Dear Santa,
Your identity was revealed to me in a book. The book was written for people three times my age, but I read it because it had the…
Michael Moore on Broadway
In an article in The New York Times, Dave Itzkoff describes filmmaker and comedian Michael Moore as "a 63-year-old hybrid of Noam Chomsky and P. T. Barnum." Now he's coming to Broadway. The Terms of…
In Praise of Failures and Mediocrities
It's possible to stumble upon as essay on the Internet that shakes you to the core. That's what happened when I came across "In Praise of Bad Art (And Bad Saints)" on the Faith and Theology website …
How Do We Determine that We Have Really Lived?
By Zayna Mian
With just 16 years to account for on this earth, I wondered if I was being presumptuous in attempting to tackle the question of what it means to have really lived. So, I turned to …
Blessed Nostalgia
My mother, Virginia McDaniel, loved Perry Como. I grew up watching her listen to him sing and listening along with her. I loved and love his voice, and I love the image of my mom loving his voice…