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Living Vodou
The word "Vodou" evokes images of sorcery and sticking pins into dolls. In fact, it's a living tradition wherever Haitians are found based on ancestral religions in Africa. We walk through this mysterious tradition — one with dramatic rituals of trances and dreaming and of belief in spirits, who speak through human beings, with both good and evil potential.
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The Business of Doing Good
Jonathan Greenblatt is among a new generation of entrepreneurs who want to lead a fundamental shift in corporate culture as well as philanthropy — a merger between making a profit and doing good. We explore his way of seeing the world and his economics of "ethical brand architecture" and "fiercely pragmatic idealism."
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Play, Spirit, and Character
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 promotes cutting-edge science on human play, and draws on a rich universe of study of intelligent social animals.
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Recovering Chinese Religiosities
Put the words "religion" and "China" in a sentence together, and Western imaginations may go to indifference at best, to brutal repression at worst. Anthropologist and filmmaker Mayfair Yang says that the upheavals of the 20th Century created an amnesia — in the West as in China itself — about this rich, pluralistic spiritual inheritance.
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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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 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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Rick and Kay Warren at Saddleback
(August 21)
Rick Warren hosted the first joint appearance of presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain at their Saddleback Church in California. The Warrens are emblematic of a new era of Evangelical leadership where global social concerns come before partisan politics. |
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» "Vodou Brooklyn"
Photographer Stephanie Keith met a Vodou priest at a Buddhist interfaith event. He invited her to photograph and experience the religious world of his Haitian culture. More than ten ceremonies later, she offers her images and reflections on these late-night rituals.
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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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