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Touching the Earth for Our Adversaries
One of the great challenges in all the world's religious and spiritual traditions is learning to love our enemies. Contemporary cultures still honor the eye-for-an-eye approach to enemies. Revenge i…
Parochial Prayer
By Eleanor Goetz in the KidSpirit Power issue.
Three hundred forty-five years ago Roger Williams declared, “forced worship stinks in God’s nostrils.”
Williams was a 17th-century English …
The Ritualized Life
Catholic Wisdom
The rosary is a bodily prayer, a prayer of touch.
Our hands touch God when our fingers touch the beads.
— Christine Lore Weber in Praying the Body and Soul by Jane Vennard
Jewels of India
By Niti Majethia for KidSpirit's Beauty and the Senses issue.
I was born and raised in Mumbai, India, a country full of different traditions and values.
India has a caste system with different…
Needed: Sacred Spaces Everywhere
In an article in The New York Times by Andrew Keh, we read about the meditation room recently opened in the Barclays Center, a Brooklyn sports arena where the Nets play. Very few fans know it even e…
Holiness in the Ordinary
Hindu Wisdom
When a person has let go of attachments, when the mind is rooted in wisdom, everything they do is worship.
— The Bhagavad Gita
Devotional Wisdom
We aren't just saying our pr…
Car Miracles and Prayers
God appears to be very active in our cars. Christine Wicker, in an article on pyschologytoday.com, shares some of the "miracles" people have told her about their automobiles. Some talk about angels …
A Personal Exploration of Diversity and Heritage
By Samarth Jajoo for KidSpirit's Heritage issue.
From a young age I was taught to stand up for my beliefs. More importantly, I was taught to appreciate diversity.
We can choose to appreciate …
A Fresh Look
By Nimai Agarwalfor in The God issue.
I was born into a spiritual family. My parents practiced Vaishnavism, a monotheistic sect of Hinduism based on worship of Krishna, the Supreme. As a result, …
"D" Is for Devotion
"There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again."
— Rumi
A Quiet Word
Devotion is a quiet word, and quiet words often get lost in o…
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