What does it mean to remain faithful to our shyness? When feeling at home in ourselves is different from feeling at home in the world.
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Daisy Hernández has spent the last four years researching Chagas disease, a heart condition afflicting about 7 million people primarily in Latin America. But she has also learned about the heart’s metaphorical condition — and what happens we we stop seeing each other’s hearts.
We've built boundaries between what we consider the cultural, human realm and the world of nature. But there are ever-widening cracks in that wall — and something to be learned about the question of belonging.
Acknowledging the limits of our own experience, and the spiritual challenge of building deep relationships with those outside our cultural comfort zones.
A deep inquiry into Trump's immigration ban, and its subversion of the American ideals we're called to embody.
The biblical song of an exiled mother carries a daring “punk-rock” message of resistance.
The aspirational ideals of our nation call us to embody compassion toward the stranger, and those whom others might cast out.
What happens when our icons are turned to rubble? Would their meaning still hold? Drawing on the Hindu tradition of ishta devata, Sharon Salzberg contemplates the Paris attacks and the Syrian refugee crisis through her favorite icon, the Statue of Liberty.
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