Recently, I spent two rejuvenating days participating in an annual prayer ceremony for the Earth. It was led by Penobscot visionary Sherri Mitchell (Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset), along with Indigenous people from around the world. I won't quote any of the profound things that people said since I do not have their permission, but I [...]
On Sunday morning, I attended a prayer service in Philadelphia that included about 200 people from about twenty different spiritual traditions. I wept as I listened to a Bahá’í leader read a prayer for the future of the United States written over a hundred years ago. Her prayer was followed by Buddhist, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, [...]
After the violence in Charlottesville, an African American friend of mine posted on Facebook that she’d had it with “spiritual white people.” I knew what she meant. As a white woman who has taught classes on spiritual discernment, racism, and social change strategy, I’d been thinking a lot about how to cultivate a spiritual [...]