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The Reframing of Zeitgeist
In an article on Slate.com, Katy Waldman recalls how the term "Zeitgeist" used to carry meaning and depth: "A zeitgeist was a formidable thing. Matthew Arnold coined the term in 1848 to capture the …
The Scope of Spiritual Literacy
I'm recommending that everyone in Congress take a course in "religious and spiritual literacy." But why stop there?
Wouldn't it be nice if people all over the world were religiously literate: tha…
The One Great Sadness
We can then see our own suffering as a voluntary participation in the one Great Sadness of God. . . . Within this meaningful worldview, we can build something new, good, and forever original, whi…
Statements of Love and Compassion
Proverb
God is a busy worker but loves to be helped.
— Basque Proverb
Native American Wisdom
Any persons whom you have ever met, even if you have just exchanged a
glance on a bus, have…
Socials for Community Connection
FLDWRK, located in Orange County, California, is an organization that focuses on ways that entrepreneurs, artists, and social activists can cooperate and become “culture creators.” The members s…
Recognizing a Deeper Unity
When I think about what practicing democracy in the United States means to me, I remember the framed replicas of the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Gettysburg address I …
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…
Everything in God and God in Everything
Panentheism means "everything in God and God in everything." It's not the same as pantheism, which identifies God with nature, or dualism, which emphasizes the gulf between God and creation. It stre…
Carrying Others' Burdens
Catholic Wisdom
If we all carry a little of the burden, it will be lightened. If we share in the suffering of the world, then some will not have to endure so heavy an
affliction.
— Dorothy Da…