I first learned to love the darkness after my mother died. Not initially. At first, after holding her body close in those minutes after her last breath, and...
Personal spirituality
Cassidy Hall is an author, filmmaker, podcaster, and ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Cassidy Hall learned something important about...
One day in fourth grade, I checked out from the library a book with a teal jacket bearing intersecting light green circles; it was titled A Wrinkle in Time...
The oldest deck of tarot cards belonged to Italian cardinal Ascanio Sforza. In its earliest incarnation, tarot, or tarocchi, was an Italian card game popular...
Exile is an experience of abandonment, something we have likely all encountered at some point on our life journeys. It is rooted in the archetype of the...
We are alive because of our ancestors, that “great cloud of witnesses” mentioned in the letter to the Hebrews (12:1). Our grandmothers and grandfathers...
When I was about 8 years old, my mom bought a book in Spanish called Créalo, Sí Se Puede (Believe It, Yes You Can) by the Mexican motivational speaker Alex Dey...
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us . . . run with perseverance the race that is set before us.” (Heb. 12:1–2) The...
When I was 13, I crashed while attempting a new tumbling pass at gymnastics practice. I spent the night in the hospital and woke up with a cast stretching from...
When my husband and I purchased our first home last year—a single-family colonial in an idyllic planned community—we were excited to decorate indoors and out...
