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A Wild Love for the World (August 5)
Joanna Macy is a philosopher of ecology, a Buddhist scholar, and an exquisite translator of the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. We take that poetry as a lens on her wisdom, at 81, on the meaning of spiritual life and its relevance for the great dramas of our time. |
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A Voice for the Animals
A profound stutter as a child left Alan Rabinowitz virtually unable to communicate and to prefer animals to people. The wildlife biologist shares his insights into the animal-human bond, and also about the dramatic personal odyssey that has brought him across the years to rediscover "the human side of things."
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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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The Art of Peace
John Paul Lederach describes what really happens when people transcend violence while living in it, and so find the moral imagination to live beyond it. Also, stories you've never heard in the news — from Colombia, Nepal, Tajikistan, Sierra Leone, Northern Ireland, and Burma.
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A Monastic Revolution
Shane Claiborne is a leading spirit in a gathering movement of young people known as the New Monastics. Emerging from the edges of Evangelical Christianity, they are patterning their lives in response to the needs of the poor — and the detachment they see in our culture's vision of adulthood.
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Holding Life Consciously
Arthur Zajonc sees contemplation as investigating life from the inside — and now it is teaching him about living with Parkinson's disease. We hear how this physicist draws on the humanities and meditation to integrate the intellectual and sensory aspects of life.
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The Spirituality of Parenting
How do parents and grandparents nurture the spiritual and moral awareness of the children in our lives? The spiritual life, Rabbi Sandy Sasso says, begins not in abstractions, but in concrete everyday experiences. And children need our questions as much as our answers.
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