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What does solidarity require?
10+ hour, 52+ min ago (108+ words) What does solidarity require? Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor offer a dizzying tour of the concept across geography and history. The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea Jesse Zink is the principal of Montreal Diocesan Theological College, an…...
As Walk for Peace reaches DC, Buddhist monks share interfaith message with thousands
23+ hour, 25+ min ago (812+ words) As Walk for Peace reaches DC, Buddhist monks share interfaith message with thousands "In front of you all, you can see all religions" leaders here together for the same mission: peace," said Bhikkhu Pa'kra, the monks" leader, who spoke for…...
Winter Fragments
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (203+ words) Into the sunlight I awaken,into the dread. How to sheltermy heart from the hammeringvoices?" " " " " " " " "How to heedRilke's call to be your ownshimmering vase'liquid roses,your own incomparablethread. A crescent moon lingersin the sky at dawn. Allour sorrows, a stringof…...
The lives of wild seeds
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (311+ words) Yet innovation happens. Some of it succeeds. Communities tangle and blend. Mixed feelings abound. But not all the young people are leaving. Several young mothers have taken up farming and lead local reforestation efforts, with the help of government subsidies,…...
American Canaan: A review of Undoing Manifest Destiny
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (84+ words) Biblical scholar Daniel Hawk shows how White American scripts of Indigenous conquest mirror the book of Joshua. Settler America, Christian Colonists, and the Pursuit of Justice Jenna Morgan (Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians) is a PhD student at Princeton Theological…...
Seeing with clarity
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (786+ words) You can live a long time off a vision like the transfiguration. But there is much else in this world we must look at, from which we dare not avert our eyes. Source images: Duccio di Buoninsegna and Fra Angelico…...
St. Peter Returns to the Garden
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (188+ words) St. Peter Returns to the Garden God of calloused hands, and splinters,and wooden bowls full of dinner,I returned here with morning,wanting to return to that last eveningwe spent together, all of usin a shadowed room,our sorrow…...
Morality requires other people
1+ week, 1+ day ago (225+ words) Morality requires other people When we substitute personal interest for the public good, trust begins to disappear in our society. Century illustration (Source images: Jorm Sangsorn / iStock /Getty) In a New Yorker cartoon, two self-contented businessmen relax in wingback chairs....
Trained to disappear: A review of Famished
1+ week, 1+ day ago (151+ words) Anna Rollins's memoir examines purity culture, disordered eating, and the cost of being a good Christian girl. On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl There's a scene right in the middle of Famished wherein one character, Leah,…...
New PBS docuseries examines the 'interwoven history' of Black and Jewish Americans
1+ week, 2+ day ago (904+ words) New PBS docuseries examines the 'interwoven history' of Black and Jewish Americans Host Henry Louis Gates Jr., center, attends a Seder while filming Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History. (Image courtesy of PBS) A new four-part PBS documentary series…...