ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

What to Expect at Work When You’re Expecting

By Roxane Gay — 2021

Legal protections against pregnancy discrimination are one thing. Actual feelings of security are another.

Read on www.nytimes.com

FindCenter Post-Image

Mama Glow’s Latham Thomas Shares Her Vision for the Future of Prenatal and Postpartum Care

Mama Glow founder Latham Thomas has been trying to revolutionize maternal care in the U.S. since she gave birth to her own son 17 years ago.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Love Everyone: A Guide for Spiritual Activists

Real political change must be spiritual. Real spiritual practice has to be political. Buddhist teachers Sharon Salzberg and Rev. angel Kyodo williams on how we can bring the two worlds together to build a more just and compassionate society.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Your Liberation Is on the Line

“No one who has ever touched liberation could possibly want anything other than liberation for everyone,” says Rev. angel Kyodo williams. She shares why we must each fully commit to our own path to liberation, for the benefit of all.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Feminism Awakens in Himalayan Buddhist Art and Meditation

Are Jetsunma, her nuns and artists achieving something truly radical and unprecedented at DGL? In the context of tradition-laden India, Nepal and Bhutan, they are. - G. Roger Denson

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Waking Up to Patriarchy

You might think being a nun is very difficult and restrictive, but for them, ironically, it’s actually freedom from the alternative, which would be to get married, have a child every other year, work in the fields, work in the home, take care of their aged families, often while married to someone...

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Tenzin Palmo: “There Is Nothing” a Woman Can’t Accomplish

“Reading my first book on Buddhism at 18 is what changed my life completely,” she’s said. When she was halfway through it, she announced: “I’m a Buddhist” — to which her mother replied, “Finish the book and we’ll talk about it!”

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

To Begin Again

When I found out I was pregnant, I had mixed feelings. The Jewish holidays helped me navigate the difficult emotional journey that followed.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Why Judaism Needs Feminism

Danya Ruttenberg a Jewish feminist on how Judaism and feminism absolutely require one another.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Latest Parenting Trend–Radical Amazement

The 20th-century rabbi and theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel writes often about “radical amazement,” that sense of “wow” about the world, as the root of spirituality.

FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Parenting as a Spiritual Practice

There is enough room in our spiritual expressions not only for all of the love we feel for our families, but also for the hectic, distracted chaos that so often defines parenting small children — if we are willing to expand our understanding of what religious expression is, and can be.

FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Pregnancy and Childbirth