Illustration by Laura Weiszer Web of Life essay by Jane Dugdale Two years ago, my congregation, Central Baptist Church in Wayne, Pennsylvania, decided to focus on climate change as a moral and spiritual issue through its Ecology Mission Group. I had been a member of this activist congregation for decades, but my spiritual journey from
MoreIllustration by James Olstein Blinded by Science by Jerry Silberman Question: Is sustainability a religious value?The Right Question: Can you have faith without respecting the world? “If then you obey the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day… I will grant the rain for your land in season, the early rain and the late.
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Compassion Project interview by Alex Mulcahy Wrapped in a brown robe and exuding a disarmingly calm manner, the Tibetan-born Venerable Losang Samten does not act like someone with a looming deadline. In a small building on the campus of the Plymouth Meeting Friends Center, Samten is working on a sand mandala, quietly arranging brightly colored
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The Halo Effect by Heather Shayne Blakeslee When I was 6 or 7, I thought that Jesus was born in Pennsylvania. My reasoning was this: Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Bethlehem is a city in Pennsylvania, therefore Jesus was born in Pennsylvania. It’s an argument form that seems so solid and obvious that logicians have
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