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Who Are You?
In his blog called "The Haystack," Edward Hays, one of our favorite spiritual teachers, ponders the question "Who Are You?" and comes up with our capacity for awe and wonder. In the creative biograp…
Happiness Through Service
By Jung Woo Be for KidSpirit’s Happiness issue.
There is a widespread view that happiness is obtained through reciprocity — in other words, that how much we receive in any given exchange dict…
Living Poorer
Wendell Berry has been writing and living a life of limits, simplicity, and letting go for many years. For Ragan Sutterfield, Berry is a model of Christian renunciation. He quotes him in his America…
A Prayer in Response to the Arizona Shootings
On January 8, 2011, Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic member of the U.S. Congress, was shot in the head outside a grocery store in Tucson, Arizona, while holding a public event. Six other people at t…
Awakening
By Melynn Oliver for KidSpirit's The Nature Truth issue.
I have been raised in the Catholic faith since the day I was adopted. As a baby, I received the first sacrament: Baptism.
Baptism symb…
Love of Creation
Zen Wisdom
Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child.
— Paul Reps in Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Movie Lines
There's never nothing going on. Take out the trash, Dan. …
Everything is Connected
Jewish Wisdom
If everything is connected to everything else, then everyone is ultimately responsible for everything. We can blame nothing on anyone else. The more we comprehend our mutual interde…
The Nun Who Broke Into the Nuclear Sanctum
On July 28, 2012 an 82-year-old nun and two companions breached extensive security set-ups at the Oak Ridge nuclear reservation in Tennessee in order to nonviolently voice their protest against this…
The Joy of Byzantine Catholicism
By Chris Woods in the KidSpirit Happiness Issue
I was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church. Shortly after I was born, my family moved and we became parishioners at a Byzantine Catholic Church …
Bhutan's Model of Gross National Happiness
In an article written for the National Catholic Reporter, Joan Chittister recalls seeing a road sign when she was in Bhutan in June. It said: "Start early / Drive slowly / Arrive safely." She immedi…
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