Listen and subscribe to The Spiritual Edge wherever you listen to podcasts – Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts. By Hana Baba “We need to have a different setup for worshipping,” Rabi’a Keeble says. “One that makes it clear that women are not second class citizens, that women are equal to men.” As far back as […]
Behind the Chief we see the top of Shasta Dam’s immense concrete spillway set against a background of dry, rolling hills. Shasta Dam stands 602 feet high. It’s the country’s 8th tallest. It turned California into the giant, agricultural engine that it is today. It also left a legacy of harm when it flooded the […]
But then after about a year, other items started to show up. Flowers, oranges and small coins would appear and disappear. It perplexed Stevenson because he never saw anyone bringing or removing the stuff. He didn’t know it, but Vietnamese immigrants — including a woman named Vina Vo — had adopted the Buddha. Vo is […]
Our advisory committee for A Prayer for Salmon is Marc Dadigan, Joseph Orozco, Brendan Lindsay, Les Hall and Michael Preston. Dr. Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June) is the co-host for A Prayer for Salmon. She is an Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her multi-genre presentation […]
SEPT. 12, 2017—Portrayed through much of history as the evil nemesis of humanity, a new movement sees Satan more as a literary symbol of rebellion than the scriptural Prince of Darkness. These modern-day Satanists say they are trying to fight what they see as the encroachment of evangelical Christianity in places they say it doesn’t […]
Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio Making space for women In mosques Monique Parsons for The Spiritual Edge Listen and subscribe to The Spiritual Edge wherever you listen to podcasts – Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts. By Monique Parsons “You’re going to your spiritual dwelling, and to have to enter the door in combat mode […]
Listen and subscribe to The Spiritual Edge wherever you listen to podcasts – Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts. By Jenee Darden Regina Evans recalls how during a rough point in her life, the pastor at a friend’s church prophesied over her. “She said, ‘I see them, I see them. Your children are coming,” She’s laughing […]
“We want the history and present realities of the Winnemem Wintu tribe from our point of view to be included in a permanent exhibit in the visitor center on Shasta Dam to accurately represent the suffering we have endured for the State of California’s water supply. It is only right that our sacrifice and contribution […]
“It feels like I’m doing my purpose in life. This is my job as a dancer and as a Winnemem Wintu man and human being to speak up for salmon and water and land and indigenous ways, indigenous lifeways and the spirituality of it all— speak on behalf of all of that, the best we […]
“For us, taking care of each other, taking care of the village, making sure that people have what they need is important. But to sit on millions of dollars, it would be silly. I couldn’t even imagine me living at the village sitting on a million dollars and not doing anything, but just more destruction.” […]
CHIEF SISK: It covers up our homeland. It misplaced us. It gave us nowhere to live. And it took our salmon away and gave the salmon nowhere to live. Some people see it just as a recreational area. They don’t even know where this water goes or care where it goes. CHIEF SISK: Yeah, they […]
“There’s nowhere else in the world that we can go to learn how to be Winnemems. Only there. We can’t go to Navajo. We can’t go to Alaska. We can’t go to Cherokee to learn how to be Winnemems.” — Caleen Sisk, Hereditary and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu people Listen and subscribe to […]
CHIEF SISK: Will she want to still go there and sing to that spring? Will we still be around enough to teach that? CHIEF SISK: That’s the struggle that we have right. Will we survive this? Will the Shasta Dam raise mean the extinction of the Winnemem Wintu? CHIEF SISK: It’s like maybe one day […]
Becoming Muslim: ABDUL RAOOF — The Spiritual Edge
Listen and subscribe to The Spiritual Edge wherever you listen to podcasts – Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts. By Hana Baba “At the end of that meeting, they asked who believes what you heard is the truth? And you stand up and they said, ‘If you want to get more information, follow that guy, right […]