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Beliefnet is gathering stories from readers on different ways they welcomed babies into this world (from anointing the baby with holy oil to hosting a Jewish bris or baby-naming to Muslim head-shaving ceremonies). The editors also hope to learn how people commemorate a baby’s arrival in non-religious ways. Parents could show their baby a first…

NPR’s “All Things Considered” aired a piece yesterday about an artist named Lisa Bufano who dances without fingers or feet. That’s right, when Bufano was 21, a staph bacteria infection cut off blood flow to her extremities, and doctors had to amputate them. So now she performs as she is, who she is, and she’s…

ReligiousTolerance.org has good information on how Tuesday’s Spring Equinox is celebrated as a sacred time around the globe. And here are wonderful images of the stones at Cairn T, the ancient Irish burial mound that is aligned like a clock with the Spring Equinox, and built so that the sun near and on March 21st…

The greatest anthem to springtime wasn’t written with spring in mind. Here’s what modern dancer Martha Graham wrote about how Aaron Copeland’s ballet score for her most famous ballet (a story of pioneering newlyweds in Pennsylvania) came to be called “Appalachian Spring.” When Aaron first presented me with the music, its title was “Ballet for…
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