Our eyes can adapt to darkness. At first, when we walk out of the sunlight into a dark cave or...
You stillness, you tenderness, you who have no place except within us, somewhere in the chambers behind our countenances. You,...
Welcome. We have crossed a threshold. This is a place of peace, of silence, of being. The heart beats steadily in its own unique rhythm. Blood flows in one direction and the other. The breath comes and goes and weaves a connection between inner and outer worlds. Guarded by the...
What does it take to find the strength within, in a moment of complete and total despair? It is our...
Hope is my imagined future approaching me. As I recognize its presence, I realize I invited it and I will...
Hope never comes alone. And when she comes, she comes in the way of a little girl. When she arrives, it is in the midst of faith and love—a constellation of three stars, with hope in the middle. They have each travelled an immeasurably long way. Faith shines out of...
Sometimes, we are touched by angels. When suddenly, out of the silence, the heart fills with gratitude, and tears flow...
The attempt to understand the US campaign and election for president has become a spectator sport with deep undertones and...
All that is good, beautiful, and true comes in threes—sweet, salty, and sour; heads, hands, and hearts; darkness, light, and color. And stories, so they say, do too. One—the Beginning: Setting the Stage Once upon a time, there was a village built on a long-forgotten sacred site, surrounded by a...
The fairy tale in this issue speaks of three brothers: “Faith,” “Love,” and “Hope.” Where do these names come from?...
Haneen Sabbah, a Muslim Palestinian mother from Gaza, and Miriam Elizabeth Turmalin, an Israeli with Jewish and Christian roots, have...


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