Tapestry

This week, Tapestry is revisiting four stories about sin, spiritual experiences and survival with guest host Christa Couture.

"I've accepted my disability, but lately I've wondered: could I also celebrate it?" Guest host Christa Couture explores loving her differences on the summer edition of Tapestry.

Who am I? Where do I belong? Why can't I be just me? "Culture, nationality, gender, are all boxes we've been asked to tick at some point or another. But what happens if none of the categories fit?" -Samira Mohyeddin?

How self-expression nourishes the soul and a new exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum in New York examines how Catholic clothing can be chic.

Reverend Yolanda Norton, a Christian minister and an unapologetic Beyoncé fan, organized a "Beyoncé Mass" in San Francisco, a service that drew close to 1000 people.

Persephone Pearl runs a unique annual event : "Remembrance Day for Lost Species", a memorial to species and places forever lost to us.

Consciousness - depending on your point of view - is either the mysterious thing that makes you human - or a quality you will one day share with artificial intelligence. David Deutsch is widely regarded as the father of quantum computing, and says consciousness is sort of like a piece of software, running on your brain. It's just a matter of figuring out the code. And giving the human body new ways to explore the world. What you gain - and what you might lose - when you're a cyborg.

Quaker worship is rooted in silence. There’s no minister to guide the service. Instead, they meet in small groups and sink into an hour-long silence which Paul Parker says “can be the most gripping 60 minutes of the week.” And Pearce Carefoote is an Anglican priest and librarian, takes us on tour of sacred books in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto.

Rabbi David Rosen argues that vegan should be the new kosher for Jews worldwide. And a Jewish-Inuk woman Killaq Enuaraq-Strauss finds similarities between her two cultures. Podcaster Dylan Marron talks to people who hate him to try to find common ground.

Need some guidance on how to manoeuvre online friendships? Philosophy professor Alexis Elder says Aristotle's theories on friendship and how to live a good life are surprisingly relevant in today's worlds - virtual or not.

"Everything" video game:

David OReilly is an animator and game designer who is really into the British philosopher Alan Watts. As David built a video game, called Everything, he’d play old lectures by Watts who died in 1973, and realized they were an uncanny good fit. So now, when you play the game Everything, the voice of Alan Watts guides you through the world, to encourage a sense of awe about the world around you - virtual or not.

Sports writer Will Leitch reflects on what it means to raise his two white sons - as a father, how can he best teach them about sexism and racism? Despite never having run before, Hasan Syed ran from Vancouver to Ottawa - to raise awareness about the lack of access to clean water in many Indigenous communities.