With the celebrations of Easter and Passover in our rearview mirrors, a poem and a postcard for the year to come.
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It's a hard time to be human. But that doesn't mean our good work has no value. Parker and Ellen Bass on the beautiful paradox of our smallness and our consequence in the world.
The human soul is a thing to name and celebrate, no matter how we understand its fickle, mysterious nature.
A photo-poem to celebrate the first night of Passover and life's endless series of stories.
A tribute to Maya Angelou for her birthday — with a reflection on her poem "Still I Rise," a fiery assertion of self.
Reflections, recalibrations, and resources to help us temper our anger, and find space for a constructive, healing civic life.
A poem from Maya Spector is an encouragement to push open the doors that hold us in when the light of spring breaks.
In the resonant voice of Valarie Kaur, Omid Safi finds hope for the painful but fruitful path that we must take forward as a nation.
Parker stands in awe at the extraordinary patience of nature. What if we centered as much care and attention on its grandeur as we do on our own selves?
There's a profound solitude in asking the challenging, radical question. A Muslim reformer finds a deep and consoling truth in the face of this reality in the voice of a poet.
A simple invocation amid the world's frenzy: that we maintain the quiet discipline of seeking delight hiding in plain sight.
Parker looks fondly on the moments he spent as a child with his grandfather — whose life-giving hands brought forth craft and nurtured a little boy into the world with a fierce and stoic tenderness.
What if we thought of hip-hop lyrics as sacred texts? Toki Wright speaks about the power of language and the spiritual responsibility of hip-hop for young people.
What if our relationship with God were more long, tender, even humorous?
On the approach to his 78th birthday, Parker offers up a gift: six learnings that prove that our personal evolution spans the whole length of life, and continues in the generations we nurture forward.
Life's tragedies can make the road ahead seem like a barren vista. But our losses can also clear space for courageous new beginnings.
Animated by solitude in the winter woods, Parker J. Palmer on seeing the hidden and potential beauty beneath what's superficial in the world we face.
A robust hope can be found in the work and life of Langston Hughes, infused with a visionary love for words and the world.
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