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The Call to Service
In his May 7, 2020, opinion column for The New York Times, the visionary David Brooks states that all young adults should have the chance to serve those around them — especially now during the cor…
A Prayer for Those Helping Elders to Age at Home
The First and the Last, we pray that you might help us deal with one of the most widespread and authentic fears of seniors and their families –the fear of aging alone with no one close to help the…
Prayers for Graduates
Graduation is in the news — announced in grade school, high school, college, graduate school, and community newspapers. For families and friends, it's time to congratulate our loved ones. For grad…
A Good Guy with a Gun?
A week after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the National Rifle Association announced its solution to stemming the tide of school shootings. "The only thing th…
The Lightbulb of Kindness
By Camille Rutter
So much darkness
Is passed through the world
Through the lack
Of kindness.
Hurray for the Average Child *
Let's hear it for the "average" child who receives no special award on honors day: the one who stares out the window in geometry class and dreams of faraway places, having mastered the art of reveri…
The Problem with Inattention
For Aeon.co, Frank Furedi, a sociologist and social commentator, has written an illuminating essay revealing that the battle against inattention and distractions has been going on since 1710. He sho…
My Safe Harbor
by Celie Johnson for Kidspirit's Numbers & Symbols Issue.
The world is irrelevant. All focus is on one thing: the present; every aspect and every physical thing, feeling, or emotion that creates …
On Birth, Death, and Moonwalking
By Andrew Lu for KidSpirit's Mysteries of the Universe issue.
We all wonder about our origins, births, and deaths. We’ve all asked our parents questions about where we came from.
As a …
Talking with Tomorrow's Peacemakers
By Akash V. Mehta in the Conflict and Peacemakers issue.
We live in a violent world filled with conflict, and we always have. But every member of every generation has a responsibility to our worl…
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