Dear Sunday: Play
Writer Lindsey Wayland invites us to examine our thinking around play. Some may think play is something only children do, and many of us forget how to play as we age, “reinforced by a culture that...
View ArticleThe Fault of Time
Erica Berry takes us on a journey from predictability to uncertainty recalling a visit with her grandparents after horrific Montana wildfires and charred ponderosa pines. “To love the trees, to live...
View ArticleThe Feminine Principle and Balance of Power
"Personal growth and human development are as old as the hills perhaps two of the more popular banners flapping in the breeze [in] the 21st century. So what’s new? Aren’t these two old chestnuts that...
View ArticleMimes Directing Traffic in Bogotà Had Surprisingly Loud Impacts
In 1995, a mayoral candidate in Bogota, Colombia, began his campaign with a slogan: “arm yourself with love.” Past efforts to “mitigate waves of violence with, well, violence, had proven ineffective.”...
View ArticleOn Community: The More-Than-Human World
Instead of imposing our human world onto the “more-than-human” world, Tess James helps us understand how the world arrives for her. “I step into the human world through the mirror of the...
View ArticleTwo Sides of the Orchard
In 2011, Ezra Sullivan joined a harvest crew in an apple orchard at the base of the Andes Mountains in Argentina. Half of the orchard was well tended in neat rows. They worked it in a task focused,...
View ArticleIn the Wake of LA Fire Destruction, 3 Faiths Worship Together
The First United Methodist Church on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, CA is a landmark on the Rose Parade route to which people throng every New Year’s Day. Now, it is a safe space for two other...
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