We are living with a global epidemic of injustice, but we've been choosing to ignore it. 

More than 25 years ago, Vivek Maru told his grandmother that he wanted to go to law school. “Grandma didn't pause,” he rec...

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“In order to let flowers live, we need to calm ourselves and empty our mind — otherwise, we cannot listen to w...

When he was ten years old, Balakrishnan Raghavan was moved to tears listening to a centuries-old Tamil hymn about Lord Shiva, sung by musician M S Subbulakshmi.  “I was wailing. Subbulakshmi’s voice soaring high and low, calling out ...

"What's gone / is not quite gone, but lingers./ Not the language, but the bones / of the language.  Not the beloved, / but the dark bed the beloved makes / inside our bodies."  -- Danusha Laméris

Danusha Laméris’s poems...

“There’s no spiritual life that does not involve, does not start, intimately and inescapably, with the Earth.”

The Rev. Fletcher Harper believes that he felt God while mourning his father’s death on a solo camping trip in M...

“You are the cumulative expression of all your ancestors.”

When Iya Affo meets someone, she instinctively looks for the best in that person, a seed in them that can be nurtured. To nurture others is a high calling for Iya, whose deepes...

“Wisdom is dangerous. Love and beauty are too. Our culture has kept us away from them, and must do so to perpetuate the insanity we see all around us.”

Mankind has lost its way, which is why we now have plastic in our blood, lead in ou...

Silence isn’t just the absence of noise. It’s a presence that brings us energy, clarity, and deeper connection.

A few years ago, Leigh Marz, a leadership coach, dance teacher, and confessed naturalist, met Justin Talbot Zorn, a policy...

“Post capitalist philanthropy is a paradox in terms. A paradox is the appropriate starting place for the complex, entangled, messy context we find ourselves in as a species.” This is how long-time activists, political strategists, and &ld...

“It is not what music does,” writes Christine Stevens, “it is what music undoes.”

In July 2022, as a crimson supermoon lit up the sky in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, Christine Stevens sat afloat in a kayak, beholding...