Environmental activists are finding new ways to bring beauty to abandoned spaces and run down neighborhoods: seed bombs! There are even instructions for making your own.

If a year ago you had told me — a semi-normal guy born and raised by missionary parents in the ways of the American evangelical — that I’d abandon my church of fifteen years, no longer be attending regular church services and entertaining Catholicism, well… I might have believed you, actually. That’s because last year, on Easter Sunday of all days, I became an atheist in the pew of my own church.

Ah, weekends. We’re nearly there! It’s enough to make a person turn off the computer, duck and bolt from work early. Weekends are often devoted to catching up, or enjoying the pleasure of being outdoors. While we are all entitled to take some moments to ourselves, I want to encourage you to do more than  Read more »

Millions of people pass through Howrah train station in Kolkota, India, but there is an invisible life that few travelers actually see. Around 200 orphaned children live at the train station, huffing glue to suppress their appetites and living a violent, tragic, almost animalistic lifestyle. Most of the kids have no idea how they even  Read more »

The UK’s Telegraph shares Henry Diltz’s photographs and commentary on Woodstock, which took place 40 years ago this month.

Reverence for an earthly king inspires reverence for the Heavenly King in Jessica Mock’s latest column.

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: 
to loose the chains of injustice
 and untie the cords of the yoke, 
to set the oppressed free 
and break every yoke?
 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
 and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
 and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
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Artist Mary Viducich visits the chaos and beauty of India and comes away with a better understanding of how we are linked in the world. And not to mention, some beautiful photographs.