[ad_1] June 4, 2021– When Bayo Akomolafe was a child, he prayed to God for a “faith meter”, a kind of tool that would measure his worth and ensure his place in heaven. “Of course I didn’t get an answer to my prayer,” he says. “But I got something better than an answer, I was…

[ad_1] June 3, 2021– “‘Hello. If you are out there, listen to me.’ On a hill overlooking the ocean in the city of Otsuchi, in northeastern Japan, there is a telephone booth known as the ‘Wind Telephone’. It is not connected to any part, but people come to “call” family members who were lost during…

[ad_1] June 2, 2021– “As Colombia continues to suffer violence and unrest, a family seeks to change the country’s history from one of destruction to one of restoration and healing by planting thousands of native orchids on the side of a mountain.” (5 readings) Read full story To take actionTake a small step today in…

[ad_1] June 1, 2021– “From the 3rd century AD to the present day, bowing to the Buddha is the most common practice for Asian Buddhists. However, among Westerners, the practice of bowing, compared to meditation, is not as well known. Last summer, I had the opportunity to speak with Reverend Heng Sure, the director of…

[ad_1] May 31, 2021– “Love Letters from Seaweed was created during the summer months I spent exploring the central Maine coastline. Every day just before sunrise I would bike to Birch Point Beach to witness the shores change topography and footprints. of marine life spilled by the tide. Intrigued, I photographed spontaneous configurations of algae…

[ad_1] May 30, 2021– “When Wharton management professor Adam Grant sat down to write his new book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, he wanted to explain why executives should rethink their approaches to managing people in a modern workplace and embrace new ideas, based on systematic evidence. ” Here he…

[ad_1] May 29, 2021– Tami Simon talks to Coleman Barks, a leading scholar and translator of the 13th century Persian mystic Jelaluddin Rumi, about the extraordinary friendship between Rumi and his teacher Shams Tabrizi. (354 reads) Read full story To take actionFor more inspiration, here is a verse from Rumi, “The root of the root…

[ad_1] May 28, 2021– Change means movement. If you want to change you have to alter something. See how a skate park in a rural Indian village was transformed into shifting gender restrictions, caste restrictions and poverty restrictions through the voices of Ulrike Reinhard, the founder of the skate park, and Asha Gond, a young…

[ad_1] May 27, 2021– “All houses have memories. The great occasions of life, triumphs and heartbreak, slide like smoke, leaving just a trace. They are the small moments that remember: the hole in the curve of the staircase, the scratches around the keyhole., or wood darkened by touch. “How we spend our days is, of…

[ad_1] May 26, 2021– “This little book, written during the last months of peace, goes to press in the first weeks of the great war. Many will feel that in a time of conflict and horror, when only the most ignorant, disloyal or apathetic can expect peace of mind, a book that deals with what…