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The International Word of the Year
Oxford Dictionaries has chosen "post-truth" as its international word of 2016. It is an adjective "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping publ…
Shut Up, Legs
By Oscar Luckett for KidSpirit’s Heritage issue.
Maybe it was because I was only seven years old, but my patience level was near zero. When my dad finally came around the bend of that Montauk r…
Perspectives on the Spiritual Life
Mantra
Think distant.
— Zen saying
Proverb
Each day is a messenger of God.
— Russian Proverb
Origins and Questions of Character Education
by Khalid Husain in KidSpirit's A Lens on Learning issue
“Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of …
Repurposing Fiction in Business School
In 1990, we read and reviewed The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination by Robert Coles, a professor of psychiatry and medical humanities at Harvard, who had pioneered a new class at H…
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 …
Nature: Now Showing on TV
In an article in The New York Times, Diane Ackerman refers to the phenomenon of "nature deficit" in children who spend very little time in the natural world and a lot of time with their technologica…
Honoring Everyone and Every Thing
Catholic Wisdom
Spiritual sensitivity heightens when we know how to see, touch, and taste the physical world with exquisite reverence and contemplative discipline.
—Tessa Bielecki in Holy Dar…
Director of Nomadland Salutes Compassion
Our favorite spiritual film of 2020 is Nomadland which we summed up as "the remarkable odyssey of a feisty woman who finds community and her true self in her home on the road."
Body Scars
The poet and singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen has written: "Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh."
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