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This recording is from “Not Your Mama’s Hymns” by Unfolding (Laura Weiss and Sarah Jebian)

I am being haunted by vague memories of this scary movie in which a global pandemic leaves this man living alone in his house with his dog, ...

You carry All the ingredients To turn your life into a nightmare -- Don’t mix them! You have all the genius To build a swing in your b...

We just finished our first week -- not even a whole week -- at home together social distancing to flatten the curve, lowering the infection ...

Julian, you are holy, you are holding my hand. (x 2) She said, "All will be well, and all will be well, all manner of things wil...

Original by MaMuse: Cover by Thrive East Bay We shall be known by the company we keep By the ones who circle round to tend these ...

What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. ...

One of the most captivating and disturbing storylines to me is the backslide from some height of achievement. Remember the young adult book ...

You bring yourself before the sacred, before the holy, before what is ultimate and bigger than your lone life bigger than your worries bigge...

By  Katie Kandarian-Morris O God of many names, the personal and mysterious, We have come to a quiet time, an interior place, a place fo...

So much undone. So much to do. So much to heal in us and the world. So much to acquire: a meal a healthy body— a fit one— a lover a job a be...

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A...

“These are the preferences of the universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.” Ta-Nehisi Coates.  Between th...

You don’t waste your energy fighting the fever; you must only fight the disease. And the disease is not racism. It is greed and the struggl...

Grateful for new paths that emerge from dark woods at the edge of my frustration and the end of what I know to do to help you, we take...

May you never lose the excitement of storytelling to a mom listening with love glistening in her eyes. May this mom never lose the love an...

I tell you not to run but your joy streaks ahead to the water surging from concrete to meet you hands up laughter cresting between...

One morning you might wake up to realize that the knot in your stomach had loosened itself and slipped away, and that the pit of unfulfilled...

Of course they never consulted us. They were wise men, kings, star-readers, and we merely transportation. They simply loaded us with gifts a...

"So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls wrapped in their cloaks upon their shoulders." —Exodu...