Mushrooms as Medicine
Derek DeForest writes about using psilocybin as a voice-hearer.
Sacred Instructions
Derek DeForest profiles Leanna, a Two-Spirit Klamath tribal member who has learned to connect with her voices and visions.
At the End of the Tunnel
Derek DeForest writes about Buddhist perspectives on voices and visions.
More Similar than Different
Tricia Gates Brown reflects on rehabilitating a thrush and letting it go
Conversation Project: In Good Faith
Religion is a topic traditionally not discussed in mixed company. But what do we lose when we avoid exploring our religious differences? Oregon is among the states in the US where people are most likely to identify as religiously unaffiliated. Many Oregonians have spiritual practices that both align with and transcend institutional definitions. Others filter strongly held values through religious traditions and frameworks. Writer and former chaplain Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo will lead participants in examining the tools we use to talk about religion without dismissing others’ beliefs or flattening the beautiful and sometimes harrowing complexities of our experiences. At the host’s request, this conversation may be customized to fit the specific needs of their community.
Conversation Project: What Makes Life Meaningful?
This conversation with philosophy professor Prakash Chenjeri and chaplain Fred Grewe aims to engage participants in a thoughtful and meaningful discussion about this very human question.
Conversation Project: Faith and Politics in Oregon and Beyond
This conversation explores how our religious ideas and political identities mix and what it means for our common life together.
Conversation Project: Ritual and Ceremony in Modern Life
Holly Pruett leads a conversation about the role of ritual and ceremony in participants’ family and cultural histories, the impact of life events that have passed unobserved, and the new ceremonies that people are creating to mark these milestones.
Conversation Project: What Makes Life Meaningful?
The question of what makes life meaningful has occupied human thinking for thousands of years. This conversation with philosophy professor Prakash Chenjeri and chaplain Fred Grewe aims to engage participants in a thoughtful and meaningful discussion about this very human question.
Conversation Project: Ritual and Ceremony in Modern Life
Holly Pruett, a life-cycle celebrant who works with individuals, families, and communities to commemorate such occasions, leads a conversation about the role of ritual and ceremony in participants’ family and cultural histories and the new ceremonies that people are creating to mark these milestones.
Conversation Project: What Makes Life Meaningful?
This conversation with philosophy professor Prakash Chenjeri and chaplain Fred Grewe aims to engage participants in a thoughtful and meaningful discussion about this very human question.
Conversation Project: Faith and Politics in Oregon and Beyond
Join writer, educator, and former minister Russ Pierson in a conversation about how our religious ideas and political identities mix and what it means for our common life together.
Conversation Project: Ritual and Ceremony in Modern Life
Holly Pruett, a life-cycle celebrant who works with individuals, families, and communities to commemorate such occasions, leads a conversation about the role of ritual and ceremony in participants’ family and cultural histories.
Conversation Project: What Makes Life Meaningful?
The question of what makes life meaningful has occupied human thinking for thousands of years. This conversation with philosophy professor Prakash Chenjeri and chaplain Fred Grewe aims to engage participants in a thoughtful and meaningful discussion about this very human question.
Conversation Project: In Good Faith
Exploring Religious Difference in Oregon
Conversation Project: Ritual and Ceremony in Modern Life
How do we make meaning out of the big milestones in our personal and community lives?
S'so's Tamales
Sal Sahme writes about finding his spiritual path as a boy on First Mesa.
Conversation Project: Too Busy to Rest
Boundaries and Balance in a Nonstop World
Conversation Project: Too Busy to Rest
Boundaries and Balance in a Nonstop World
"Spiritrials" Post-Show Discussion on Faith and Religion
A conversation reflecting on the show with Conversation Project leader Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo of Interfaith Muse. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
Conversation Project: In Good Faith
Exploring Religious Difference in Oregon
Conversation Project: What Makes Life Meaningful?
Are we sparks of divine creation, or simply meaning-making creatures, or genes replicating themselves for no other purpose than adapting to our natural environment? This conversation with philosophy professor Prakash Chenjeri and chaplain Fred Grewe aims to engage participants in a thoughtful and meaningful discussion about this very human question.
Conversation Project: In Good Faith
Exploring Religious Difference in Oregon
Conversation Project: In Good Faith
Exploring Religious Difference in Oregon
This Is Not Just a Cloud
Embracing grief in the wilderness. An essay by Michael Heald
Stepping Backward
Hearing lessons from a bomb. An essay by David Naimon
The Thing with Feathers
Joanna Rose on a writer's road trip gone wrong
Against Custom
The first peace advocates imagined a new story for the United States. An essay by Margot Minardi