HeyJaredJoyful Belonging by Casper ter Kuile
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Someone Imagined This Place For Us (opens the original)
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E. M. Forster wrote his novel Maurice in 1914 but kept it unpublished until nearly sixty years later, after his death.Why?In large part because British law criminalized homosexuality until 1967 and this book centers a wonderfully sensitive gay storyline. But, even more scandalously, the two lovers are left with the hope of a happy ending. Forster built a world of possibilities by picturing two men in a stable, cross-class, enduring partnership. And besides recommending it wholeheartedly to you i
Before Collaboration, Trust. Before Participation, Belonging. (opens the original)
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You know those “plazas” outside a convention center or large corporate building? As soulless as an airport, but outside?There’s nothing less interesting—and yet when Ash Hanson took a small group of us onto one of Denver’s so-called plazas, she transformed it into one of the most alive spaces I’ve been in all year. In an hour, we created a Dance of Colorado, three epic potential ads for the state’s tourism board, and I felt a sudden kinship with these strangers and the place we’d made our creati
How To Pray When You Don’t Believe In God (opens the original)
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This column was first published in Vox. I’m grateful for their permission to reproduce it in full. I wish I could pray.For religious friends of mine, prayer seems to open a portal to a world that’s beyond my reach. Like there’s some divine VIP area where you can whisper in God’s ear to plead for what you need. Not exactly a holy vending machine that gives you what you want, but certainly a secret language that can lead to ecstatic mystical union and profound peace.I’ve tried t
Three Reminders For Your Soul (opens the original)
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We must love and support each other.The purpose of the individual is to share their gifts and the purpose of the community is to receive them.We are the ones we have been waiting for.<img alt="" class="sizing-n
When the Conditions for Moral Life Are Broken (opens the original)
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One of the great joys of my work is speaking with so many people doing meaningful work—often at the fringes of my own understanding, but always piquing my enthusiasm and sustaining my hope. Bridget Burns is a doctoral student at MIT where she studies the infrastructure of care. Throughout our call we returned to the theme of moral injury: the despair that comes when we can’t act in the ways we know to be good. It’s a phrase I’d heard before but wanted to understand better. So, in this conversati
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