Spirituality

When Thanksgiving approaches, so too does an influx of classical music performances across the state. Wisconsin Public Radio “Afternoon Classics” host Lori Skelton says Wisconsin is seeing a unique “concert bottleneck” this autumn, due in part to effects of COVID-19 public gathering restrictions. Skelton joined WPR’s “The Morning Show” to discuss the season’s most anticipated…

Architect Marion Clendenen-Acosta fondly remembers visiting the Mitchell Park Domes with her family as a child. This month, she returned to the domes once again — but to receive Wisconsin’s most prestigious architecture award from the state society of the American Institute of Architects. The award recognizes an architect’s contributions to the profession. In 2000,…

Roland Griffiths helped pioneer the use of psychedelics to treat people with cancer who are scared of dying. Then he got his own terminal diagnosis. He talked with Steve Paulson in January 2023 about his personal LSD journey when he “talked” with his cancer.

What changes when we don’t think of humans as the center of everything, or the most special, or the smartest beings on the planet? If you take this idea seriously, there are huge ethical implications. The natural world isn’t just full of resources to be extracted or exploited — animals and plants, even rocks and…

On Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble’s desk at the Daughters of St. Paul Pauline Publishing House in Boston is a small skull. She uses it to meditate on death. This nun, who’s the daughter of a theologian, left the church and her Catholic faith during her teenage and early adult years and focused on other interests…

Monday, November 30 through Friday, December 18, 2020. Read by Susan Sweeney. A travelogue of soul-searching and self-discovery. (Penguin ISBN-10: 0670034711) Theme: Ray Lynch: Over Easy (from “Nothing Above My Shoulders but the Evening” (Windham Hill)

“A Sand County Almanac” is built around deceptively simple essays describing Aldo Leopold’s personal experiences with nature. They shaped his concept of the “Land Ethic,” a human, moral responsibility to the natural world. Two people with nature-focused careers who were guided to them by very different interactions with the environment are Karie Cherwin and David…

For many people, religion is like the air you breathe — you’re immersed in it, anchored by it, you take it in as a fixture in your daily life. You attend church as a family and your shared belief is part of the culture that shapes and knits together your community. But what’s the original…

The reports came in at an alarming pace. A student at a middle school near Milwaukee drew a stick figure with a swastika on its face. The image held a gun pointed at another stick figure, which had the name of the student’s Jewish teacher on it. A voicemail left on the phone of a…

Every Halloween children in costumes go door to door begging for treats. It’s a tradition with a long history, even though it didn’t catch on in the United States until the 1920s and 1930s. The Celts dressed up as evil spirits as a defense against the demons that were believed to be roaming the earth…