Quote for Today: Margaret Atwood
There were places you didn’t want to walk, precautions you took that had to do with locks on windows and doors, drawing the curtains, leaving on lights. These things you …
Quote for Today: Abraham Joshua Heschel
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man …
Quote for Today: Zeena Schreck
Many secular observers and spiritual practitioners alike mistake mystical chanting as a kind of anthropological curiosity or interesting musical diversion from secular mainstream entertainment, sometimes labeling it ‘world’ or ‘folk’ …
Quote for Today: Ansul Noor
By some tear in the wish fabric, or the casting of a prayer, or the falling of some lonely star, the enchanted garden was not lost to me, but lost …
Reverent Strength: The Soulful Mbira of Hope Masike
Competition is distilled from survival instincts. Ironically, it may destroy our chance for survival. Can the arts help change this? The mbira, or thumb piano is a traditional musical instrument found …
Dreaming to Be Clean: Aterciopelados Prayer for the River
Aterciopelados is a Colombian rock band founded and led by Andrea Echeverri and Héctor Buitrago. They are famous for their musical style, a fusion of Colombian and other Latin American traditions, and …
Transcending Cultures through the Arts, Part One
Why is art a great way to break down barriers? It engages our humanity and reveals common ground between cultures. The didjeridoo is a wind instrument that originated in Australia …