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Laura Beckman: A Star is Born: Metaphorical Portraits of America

Artist Carl Gopal’s interests are expansive, but he is by no means a dilettante. He is gifted with an ability to analyze current events in the context of the “big picture” without getting overwhelmed,...

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Guest: “A Purely Spiritual Experience”: The Art of Yoram Raanan

Artist Yoram Raanan seeks to revive life and purpose. His characteristic style drips with vibrant colors and processions of people that practically melt into each other and their surroundings. While...

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Riyana Rebecca Sang: Murmuration & Occupation – Why We Shut Down the Ports

On Monday morning I awoke before dawn and somehow managed to crawl out of bed, fumble my jeans and boots on, and sling my drum and backpack – the one that has become the indefinite home for my first...

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Lita Kurth: Spirituality of Charlotte’s Web

A woman probably has about 450 egg cells available in her lifetime; in the U.S., perhaps one or two of those become children. A man, of course, has millions and millions of sperm, but again, only a...

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Wes Howard-Brook: Abram’s Call Out of Empire: Neither Jew Nor Christian

“Go from your land, and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will...

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Lita Kurth: Writing for Change in San Francisco

At first, I was worried that a one-day conference wouldn’t be worth $99 or, at the last minute, $149, but the moment I was welcomed into the Unitarian church on Franklin, I received a nice string...

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Gabriel Crane: Did the Flood Actually Happen?

When it comes to the Bible, most spiritual progressives are not literalists – particularly when it comes to the seemingly nursery rhyme stories of Bereishit, the Book of Genesis. If we place any...

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Cat Zavis: A Call for A Politics of Love

Dear President Obama and Democratic Members of Congress, I invite you to embrace the radical notion that there are fundamental truths and values that the vast majority of US citizens believe in and...

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Sharon Delgado: Once You Knew

How can we develop the capacity to face the extent of global destruction without becoming paralyzed? How can we find inner peace and take care of our personal responsibilities while doing our small...

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Sharon Delgado: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. In Christian tradition, on this day ashes are used to symbolize two things: repentance and mortality.

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New Monastic -- Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: We Can Change the Story

We desperately need the story of a Jesus who is risen and comes home with us, making a new kind of community possible here and now.

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Sara Davidson: Digging Under the Dam: A Story about Rabbi Zalman...

In 2005, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, who founded the Jewish Renewal movement, made a pilgrimage to Ukraine to the grave of the Baal Shem Tov, who founded Hasidism. Reb Zalman felt a kinship with...

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Ama Zenya: Open the Eyes of My Heart

What if Christians were known – really KNOWN – for one good thing? So that when most people thought of Christianity they couldn’t help but think of this one thing as central to who we are in the world....

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Donna Schaper: Spirituality and Technology: The Case of the Caring Bridge

What is good about talking about human suffering and death using technology? What is not? At these moments of great stress and distress, we want nothing counterfeit.

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New Monastic -- Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Botched Oklahoma Execution Reveals...

At 6:23pm yesterday, the state of Oklahoma initiated its effort to kill Clayton D. Lockett. Twenty minutes later, after being declared unconscious by a physician, Lockett cried out, “Oh man,” writhing...

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Dovid Gottlieb: Our Self-Sufficiency is Ruining Relationships — Here’s How to...

For many saying “I need you” is scary. If I need you, then I am needy, and so I am dependent, and so I am a failure. But the truth is that I do need you, that I cannot make it [with the same success]...

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Shmuel Klatzkin: Shavuot’s Revelation of Self

Shavuot provides an opportunity to peer deeply into the open self, a process embodied in the receiving of Torah at Sinai. The question is: will you choose to go up?

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Anna Challet: Young Muslims Choosing to Wear the Hijab Despite Rising Tide of...

Outward displays of one's faith can be controversial, especially if that faith has anything to do with Islam. Young adults discuss the physical demonstrations that keep them connected to their...

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Saadia Faruqi: Fasting for Peace

Interfaith Iftar events are a dime a dozen nowadays. So this year I’m doing something different; a tiny step that may end up being the biggest step of them all, at least for me. Tonight I plan to...

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Genevieve Vaughan: The name of the Goddess

For those who try to be open to the spiritual commitments of others, it is contradictory to call a group with whom we may soon be at war with by the name of a deity who is loved and honored by many. I...

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