This poem by Walt Whitman celebrates the sacred role of women and motherhood.
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Amanda Gorman, a 22-year-old poet, read an original work at President Joe Biden’s inauguration.
A conversation with Jessye Norman, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Toni Morrison, and Judith Weir about Weir’s “woman.life.song,” a collaborative effort to express universal experiences of womanhood.
Most congregational leaders find it difficult to resist the dominant cultural expectation that different cultural and ethnic groups should stick to themselves -- especially when it comes to church.
A glorious fifteen-line celebration of “the bond of live things everywhere.”
In this captivating reading, legendary poet, activist and scholar Sonia Sanchez explores the most important question of the 21st century: What does it mean to be human?
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There will be no Prince on a white horse to save us. It is up to us to take agency and create local solutions that benefit our communities and ourselves.
Until the marches, “pussy” was treated like a four-letter dirty word. What followed, as women responded to the crass reference to them as a body part, became an enantiodromia—a derogatory and shameful word became transformed into its opposite.
Reclaiming Relationship & Tradition: Towards a Future that Works for All.