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The Ethics of Eating
Barbara Kingsolver describes an adventure her family undertook to spend one year eating primarily what they could grow or raise themselves. As a citizen and mother more than an expert, she turned her life towards questions many of us are asking. Food, she says, is a "rare moral arena" in which the ethical choice is often the pleasurable choice.
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Presence in the Wild
A Unitarian Universalist minister and author, Kate Braestrup is called in when children disappear in the woods or when snowmobilers disappear under the ice. She likes to say that she is "religious but not spiritual" — a doer whose sense of God emerges from what happens between and among people.
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Sustaining Language, Sustaining Meaning
Language is a carrier of human identity. It is a vehicle by which we understand and express our very sense of self. Novelist and translator David Treuer is helping to compile the first practical grammar of the Ojibwe language. He describes an unfolding experience of how language forms what makes us human.
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Pagans Ancient and Modern
An environmentalist who pursued the ecological impulse of Paganism, from its ancient roots to its modern revival in Europe and North America, discusses his observations about the spirit of Paganism and its influence on everyday Western culture — and even on old-time religion.
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The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel
Born into an esteemed Hasidic family in Poland in 1907, Heschel became a public intellectual and a provocative leader in 1960s America on race, war, and interreligious encounter. We explore his teachings and his legacy for people in our time.
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 Free Six-Week Discussion Outline (PDF)
Religion matters. But how do we talk about it with our friends and colleagues? Use this outline as a guide for your book club, congregation, or religious education group.
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"The Touch of Alzheimer's Disease"
The average lifespan of men and women is on the rise. And, with it, an increasing number of people are suffering from Alzheimer's disease or taking care of someone with Alzheimer's.
Each person with this illness has a distinct experience and a distinct story, a story often carried in memory by a caregiver or loved one. If your life has been touched by Alzheimer's, we'd like to hear your story. How has this disease changed the way you think about love, memory, personality and humanity?
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Play, Spirit, and Character (July 24)
Stuart Brown, a physician and director of the National Institute for Play, says that pleasurable, purposeless activity prevents violence and promotes trust, empathy, and adaptability to life's complication. He fosters cutting-edge science on human play, and draws on a rich universe of study of intelligent social animals.
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» "Bach's Bible"
Bach's compositions, Dr. Thomas Rossin says, stemmed from his private faith — a faith evidenced by Bach's handwritten notes in his Bible. Hear about the Bible's nomadic journey and its possible influence of his Mass in B Minor — what Pelikan holds up as an example of the "best we've ever done."
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Join the Conversation
Recent rebroadcasts of "The Spirituality of Parenting" and "Brother Thay: A Radio Pilgrimage with Thich Nhat Hanh" are springboards, listeners tell us, for new conversations. But how do they talk about it outside the radio hour?
We've created a series of guides developed for 13 SOF programs to help facilitate discussion within families or among communities. Purchase these resources and learn new ways to speak together.
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