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A Prayer to Honor American Nuns In an article in The New York Times, columnist Nicholas Kristof reported on Pope Benedict's reprimand and criticism of American nuns and the organization that represents 80% of them. The Vatican lam…
The Role of Women in the Bahá’í Faith By Ariana Resauladin for KidSpirit's The Soul of Gender issue. I’m a 12-year-old girl who has grown up in a community of Bahá’ís. It is really astonishing to be a part of a religion th…
Honoring Marion Woodman Marion Woodman, a psychoanalyst, best-selling author, and popular explorer of the varied stages of female identity and growth, died on July 9 in London, Ontario. She was 89. In the early 1970s, a…
A Prayer for Libyan Refugees The United Nations refugee agency says almost 100,000 people have fled the fighting in Libya and gone to Tunisia and Egypt. The situation is now seen as a "humanitarian emergency." Many of these peo…
A Prayer for Women Raped in War Zones A Libyan woman, who gave her name as Eman al-Obeidy, burst into a restaurant in Tripoli where Western journalists were eating on March 26 to tell them that she had been taken from her hometown, conf…
A Prayer for Victims of Sexual Violence One Who Weeps, be with all victims of sexual violence as they struggle with the memories and the pain of having being attacked. REPORT: The latest report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Contro…
Revisioning the Spiritual Retreat Center In an article for The New York Times, Norimitsu Onishi writes about the challenges facing the legendary Esalen Institute with its glorious views of California's coastline. At one time it was the onl…
A Prayer of Respect for All Women The disgusting gang rape on a bus in India of a woman student, who later died of her injuries, has set off a firestorm of protest against gender violence. Nicholas Kristof cites other shocking incid…
A New Regimen for My Body's Sake I am so focused on my work that I often show great disrespect for my body and the food I eat. I miss out on the spiritual riches of eating mindfully. My attitude around most meal times is "Let's jus…