Spirituality & Practice

Sep 27, 2024 | spiritualityandpractice.com | Nancy Churnin

In the town of Natick, Massachusetts, when Cari marries her wife Lauri, their neighbors welcome them and their dogs. Many friends gather to help hang the couple's rainbow flag. One of the neighbors, a boy named Brendan, feels shocked and dismayed when he's out one morning riding his bike and notices the flag and the dogs missing. He discovers the dogs curled in fright at Cari and Lauri's feet as they scrub sticky bits of yolk from the outside of their house.

Sep 20, 2024 | spiritualityandpractice.com | Kaitlin Curtice

In this timely Zoom webinar based on her most recent book, Kaitlin Curtice will talk about how we can live responsible, responsive lives in the presence of so much injustice. Daily we encounter the reality of war, oppression, and hate – reported from far away or happening in our own communities. We can feel powerless or discouraged because the problems are deep, widespread, and systemic. Curtice’s talk will reinvest us with a sense of agency and hope.

Sep 5, 2024 | spiritualityandpractice.com | Mary Oliver

What is the greatest gift? What is the greatest gift? Could it be the world itself — the oceans, the meadowlark, the patience of the trees in the wind? Could it be love, with its sweet clamor of passion? Something else — something else entirely holds me in thrall. That you have a life that I wonder about more than I wonder about my own. That you have a life — courteous, intelligent — that I wonder about more than I wonder about my own.

Sep 4, 2024 | spiritualityandpractice.com | Mary Ann Brussat |Frederic Brussat

For millennia, teaching stories have been used to convey the wisdom of the world's religions and spiritual paths. Sacred texts are full of them: the stories about God's activity in the Hebrew Bible, Jesus' parables about the kingdom of God in the Gospels, the epic accounts of the gods and goddesses in Hindu scriptures. From the oral traditions, we have tales about Buddhist teachers, Hasidic rebbes, Sufi dervishes, and Taoist masters. Then there are fables; fairy tales; even jokes.

Sep 4, 2024 | spiritualityandpractice.com | Anna Desnitskaya

On February 17, 2022, Anna Desnitskaya traveled with her family from her beloved hometown of Moscow to Cyprus for a week-long vacation. While there, they learned that Russia had invaded Ukraine. Knowing what would almost surely lie ahead if they returned home, they instead took on the tremendous unanticipated challenge of emigration.