Holy Impatience: an interview with Matthew Fox
An interview with Matthew Fox. Organized
religion needs to get its act together and bring in the
feminine, the widom of Sophia. See also his 95
theses.
Health & Happiness
At the Mercy of Strangers
What would you ask of the people who will care for you when you are unable to care for yourself?
Can Elders Save the World
This is no time to be wasting the talents and wisdom of elders.
Of, By and For Seniors: Japanese Seniors Co-operatives
Japanese families are getting smaller while the ranks of the aged are growing. A co-operative has stepped into this vacuum, connecting thousands of elders who have something to give and something to receive.
What Is Old Age For?
It turns out there is a reason humans live decades after our reproductive years end, a reason obscured by reference to "the golden years" and endless products designed to keep us young. The truth is we need our elders to be elders.
Spare the Rod
It's not coincidental that throughout history the most violently despotic and warlike societies have been those in which violence, or the threat of violence, is used to maintain domination of parent over child and man over woman.
A Life Lived Whole
What happens when people refuse to live a lie?
Carry Me Away
Yet this is a sort of knowledge that
generations before us have already held, a way of appreciating
the world that we might share without trauma, without hard
lessons, if we but remember how our ancestors used to
live.
The Secret to Happiness
Americans are far more affluent, on average,
than we were in the 1960s, but no happier. What do research
data tell us is the real source of joy and
contentment?
Time To Be, Time To Love
Time to Be, Time to Love by Rabbi Arthur
Waskow, shabbat shabbaton,
Finding Dignity in Exile
Fleeing the violence of Burma's military rulers, Shan women create a sanctuary and a power base by working together.
A Canoe In Singing Waters
A Canoe in Singing Waters by Elizabeth
Grossman, dam removal in Wisconsin
Restoring Nature, Restoring Yourself
A dying man thought he鈥檇 spend his last days
cleaning a small creek behind his house. Did he save the creek?
Or was it the creek that saved him?
Surviving the Great Dying
As an era of extinctions unfolds, the dawning
understanding of its links to our own health could energize a
movement to save us all
Health Hunger And Hunting
a story of a vegetarian who learned how to hunt
on his land. He developed his own personal ecology, which
included eating locally and responsible
hunting.
Old Pain, New Hope
无码视频 than a hundred years after it helped overthrow the Queen of Hawaii, the Congregational Church musters the courage to face its past and apologized for the church's role in 鈥渢he unprovoked invasion of the Hawaiian nation.鈥�
Just Listen
The Compassionate Listening Project is a reconciliation effort based on the ideas of Gene Knudsen Hoffman, a Quaker peacemaker. Participants are trained to listen respectfully to all sides of the conflict, with a goal to build the international constituency for Mideast peace while offering a practical tool for conflict resolution.
Second Chance For Black Farmers
A recent class-action suit by black farmers against the USDA fails to stem the loss of land by African American farmers.
Garden of Simplicity
garden of simplicity, by Duane Elgin.
Simplicity is the new mantra for the overworked, over-stressed,
and over-cluttered, and for those who want to lighten their
impact on the Earth. The author of the classic book on
voluntary simplicity says the ways to simplicity are
many.
Song of the Land
Mohave Creation Song cycle describes relation
of the Mohave to their land and helps prevent Ward Valley from
becoming a nuclear waste dump.
Simplicity Double-Speak
When big media attempts to horn in on the
simplicity movement, author and voluntary simplicity
spokeperson Vicki Robin draws a line in the
sand
Hog Heaven
combining some old-fashioned animal husbandry
with new, low-tech facility design and sophisticated ideas
about the relationships between livestock and the
land.
Wendell Berry’s Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.
Making Amends – The Australian Journey of Healing
Making Amends by John Bond - Australian Journey of Healing
Notes From a Pilgrimage
Fran Korten makes a pilgramage to see the Dalai
Lama
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