April Practice: Unity
While the news continues to call our attention to political divisions, we are mindful of the spiritual teaching of “one hand, one heart” —that all our individual appearances are specific manifestations of the Whole Essence. This concept of Divine Oneness—of...
Passover in a Time of Coronavirus
In this moment, as many are rethinking how to observe important religious holidays, Rabbi Josh Feigelson, PhD, executive director of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality shared this reflection on celebrating Passover during the COVID-19 pandemic. How can we celebrate our holiday of...
Love Your Neighbor in a Language They Understand
Fetzer’s involvement in spiritual literacy or “being able to find sacred meaning in all aspects of life”—as Frederick and Mary Ann Brussat define it in their book Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life—has been a longtime pursuit. It...
SEL by the Numbers
Imagine an 11-year-old boy named Matteo. Matteo is in a new school this year; he lives with his abuela during the week because his mother works both days and nights to provide for him, and he is an only child....
Toward a Spiritual Infrastructure of the Future
Spiritual innovation is happening all around us. From taking church to the streets of Skid Row to proclaiming rest as resistance within a productivity-obsessed culture, spiritual innovators are expanding the boundaries of how we access the divine and seek meaning...
Three ways to foster self- and holy care at work
Love is a pretty big part of our workplace vocabulary, but that’s probably what you would expect from a place with a mission to help build the spiritual foundation for a loving world! But honestly, love can have a place...
Racial Justice Doesn’t Have to Divide Us as Americans. Here’s How We Can Work Together.
Our faith traditions and spiritual paths call us to care for the other beyond our own self- and clan-interest as an expression of Love. Originally published in USA Today June 15, 2023 The new Public Agenda/USA TODAY Hidden Common Ground poll offers...
10 Characteristics of a Spiritually Supportive School: A Different Kind of School Supply
Bus drivers are back on their routes; teachers are leading classrooms bursting with energy; and parents and guardians are helping young people make the annual summer-to-school transition. As kids return to school eager to see old friends and meet new...
Our Common Work
From a talk given at the twelfth family foundations conference, February 1998, published in the 1998 25th anniversary issue of Noetic Sciences Review. Is it possible for money to be a conduit for love? The word philanthropy carries the meaning "love...
Toward a Spiritual Infrastructure of the Future
By Diana Scearce and the SSH project team Spiritual innovation is happening all around us. From taking church to the streets of Skid Row to proclaiming rest as resistance within a productivity-obsessed culture, spiritual innovators are expanding the boundaries of...