Toggle to filter resultsAvailable filters:
Changing a filter will refresh results (and remaining options) immediately. Searching by keyword or changing the number of items per page requires use of the "Search" button.
- Acceptance (1)
- America (1)
- Anti-Oppression (2)
- Arts & Music (1)
- Awe (1)
- Balance (1)
- Body (1)
- Children (1)
- Class (1)
- Community (1)
- Compassion (1)
- Connections (1)
- Contemplation (1)
- Diversity (1)
- Empathy (1)
- Generations (1)
- God (1)
- Gratitude (1)
- History (1)
- Identity (2)
- Immanence (1)
- Immigration (1)
- Inclusion (1)
- Joy (1)
- Letting Go (2)
- Limitations (1)
- Multiculturalism (3)
- Presence (1)
- Race/Ethnicity (2)
- Relationships (1)
- Self-Respect (1)
- Spiritual Practice (1)
- Transformation (1)
- Vulnerability (1)
- Young Adults (1)
- (-) Culture (7)
Displaying 1 - 7 of 7
-
Life doesn't have to be ever-upward in order to be well-lived.Reflection | By Christine Slocum | January 18, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Balance, Contemplation, Culture, Presence, Worship
-
I do not believe the acts of oppressors are my people's shame.Quote | By Imani Perry | October 27, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Culture, Direct Experience, Generations, History, Humanism, Identity, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/Ethnicity, Secular, Self-Respect
-
The assumption that all people remember the same set of events, or enjoy the same set of things, puts enormous burdens of assimilation onto members of marginalized communities.Reflection | By Yuri Yamamoto | July 15, 2020 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Children, Class, Culture, Direct Experience, Diversity, Inclusion, Multiculturalism
-
God is not a distant force, far away. God is in the beating of our hearts and the backbeat of a funky baseline. God is in a four-on-the-floor drum fill, and in the achy joints and sore muscles the day after.Reflection | By Alex Haider-Winnett | October 24, 2018 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Arts & Music, Awe, Body, Culture, Direct Experience, God, Immanence, Joy, Letting Go, Spiritual Practice, Young Adults
-
For almost thirty years after coming to the United States, I didn't fully understand the cultural cues around me. Initially, this gave me the false sense of liberation. I often interpreted uncomfortable situations to be my fault, as an ignorant immigrant. Trying hard to assimilate, I unconsciously suppressed what came naturally to me.Reflection | By Yuri Yamamoto | July 5, 2017 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), America, Culture, Direct Experience, Identity, Immigration, International, Letting Go, Multiculturalism, Race/Ethnicity, Transformation
-
Hay tantísimas fronteras que dividen a la gente, pero por cada frontera existe también un puente. There are so many borders that divide people, but for every border there is also a bridge. Adapted from "Copla #1," Puentes y fronteras/Bridges and Borders, translated by Katherine Callen King.Reading | By Gina Valdés | August 26, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Community, Connections, Culture, Direct Experience, International, Multiculturalism, Relationships, Secular
-
A voice screeched gate assignments through a nerve-jangling public address system. Even if the announcements had been in English, I doubt that I’d have been able to make sense of them. But whatever was being broadcast to the cavernous waiting area of the Moscow airport prompted mobs of people to...Reading | By Jeffrey A. Lockwood | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Acceptance, Compassion, Culture, Direct Experience, Empathy, Gratitude, Humanism, Limitations, Vulnerability