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Big-Hearted Democracy
This post has been contributed by Judith L. Favor, who is rooted and grounded in Quaker tradition and contemplative practice. She is retired from pastoral UCC ministry in San Francisco and teaching …
The Missing “E” in Human
By Adya Sarin for KidSpirit's Education Issue.
It’s important to be humane and not simply a human. The only difference (literally) is the “e,” and that missing “e” is empathy.
Empath…
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…
The Queen's Message
As millions of people world-wide mourn the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, I remember her beautiful Christmas message from 2015. As the head of the Church of England, she was a devoted Chri…
Advancing Freedom in Athletic Training
Patrick Ianni founded Ianni Training after a playing career that spanned nine years in Major League Soccer, participating in the 2008 Olympics, and being an All-American at UCLA. These experiences t…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Six High Ideals
"Rosh Ha-Shanah is a time for us to contemplate our highest ideals and our actual behavior. We make amends to ourselves, to one another, and to God for the gap." So writes Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artso…
Harmony But Not Uniformity
By Dylan Zhang
For me, a society is like a puzzle or a chessboard, with every culture being a unique piece.
Truly Connecting
By Oscar Luckett
At the very start of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce's fictional alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, reads through an index in the fold of his geography pamphlet.
A Litany for Economic and Social Justice
Occupy Wall Street is an ongoing demonstration in New York City to protest economic and social injustices. Participants have moved into a park in lower Manhattan near Wall Street and have marched th…