Features
A Mohawk Thanksgiving Address
Tom Porter
Anytime people come together, these are the words that must be spoken before anything important can be done.
Mapping Black Elk
Emilio Laurier Williams Portal
A Canadian architect turns the Western worldview upside down as he considers the true value of a place
Remembering for the Future
An Interview with Melissa Nelson
Peacemakers and warriors, ceremony and the Great Mystery will bring us back together after five hundred years of fragmentation.
The Original Religion
Charles Eisenstein
To even use the words “divine” or “sacred” widens the division between ourselves and the world we inhabit.
Maturity Matters
An Interview with Bill Plotkin
How visionary experience, the dream of the earth, and constant interaction between people of all ages can help us finally grow up.
An Inescapable Calling
An interview with Niall Campbell
Plagued by dreams and harassed by voices, this Tsonga-Shangan Bangoma speaks about the “sickness of calling” that led him to thwasa.
Portfolio: Gravity of Stone
Photos by John Barry, Text by Sharon Brown
At the Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta, Georgia, a remarkable garden of Zimbabwean sculpture gives travelers a place to remember and connect.
Fiction: Eyes of a Temple Cow
Murzban F. Shroff
Fed and fussed over, the playmate of Lord Krishna chews the cud of the sacred and the profane
DEPARTMENTS
Editor’s Note
The Gods’ Little Joke
Letters
Unintended Consequences
Sweet Nothings / Wrinkles in the Plan
Reviving Right Relationship
Remembering, Respect and Reconciliation
Marketplace
Final Flicker
Opening to the Sacred
Deena Kaye Wade
COLUMNS
Dreams of the Holy
The Great Mystery Speaks
Barry Williams
Divine Nourishment
Ancestral Voices
Mary Lane
Logs for the Fire
A Tale of Beauty and Happiness
Svagita Elks
Poetry
Motionless in Moonlight
Stephen Bruehner
Open Your Box of Religion
Susan Taylor
On Plum Island
Katharine Gregg
The Great Mother
David Harrinngon
PROVOCATIONS
The Holy Ones Among Us
What If...
A Young Woman Dies.