Spirited Social Change

Spirited Social Change Spirited Social Change is focused on expanding the heart of social change work. Right now we do this What matters most? How shall we live? Can you relate? Join us.

Spirited Social Change is committed to expanding the heart of social change work by: building purpose-driven community, creating space for reflective re-engagement, and supporting leaders for the long-haul. It comes from knowing that the world we want to create will require us to lead from our hearts, and to be able to appeal to the hearts and minds of others. The work we do can wear us down, and

the culture we live in can be cruel and disappointing. But we care too much to give in to the temptations of disengagement. There are reminders everywhere that a better world is possible, and we endeavour to be living amplifications of those reminders. In an increasingly secular culture, at a time of widespread economic and environmental crisis, we long to consider the big questions: For what are we here? How can we sit with pain and respond to injustice? How can we realize our biggest dreams for one another?

Lots of good here. ❤️
01/13/2018

Lots of good here. ❤️

A Q&A with Dr. Angela Rose Black on the omission of the voices and wisdom of people of color in mindfulness research, teaching, and practice.

“Sometimes, it’s hard to remember that people around the country are experiencing the same things, especially when we’re...
11/30/2017

“Sometimes, it’s hard to remember that people around the country are experiencing the same things, especially when we’re talking about poverty. There’s a lot of shame around poverty in the United States. And the value for us was being able to see that people around the country were experiencing the same things, and break some of our sense of isolation.”

Can they articulate an American liberation theology for the Trump era?

"When something is morally wrong, it does more harm than good to put a spiritually positive spin on it. Whitewashing in ...
03/31/2017

"When something is morally wrong, it does more harm than good to put a spiritually positive spin on it. Whitewashing in the name of God doesn’t improve the world — it discredits religion as yet another source of delusion."

Reflections, recalibrations, and resources to help us temper our anger, and find space for a constructive, healing civic life.

Important writing from Vancouver Rabbi Rabbi Dan Moskovitz about the US Inauguration: "The Talmud instructs us, "It is n...
01/12/2017

Important writing from Vancouver Rabbi Rabbi Dan Moskovitz about the US Inauguration:

"The Talmud instructs us, "It is not the place that honors the person, but the person that honors the place." (Ta'anit 21b). It is not an honor for Rabbi Hier or the Jewish religion to be associated with Mr. Trump's campaign rhetoric, it is a shanda, a disgrace."

It is not an honor for Rabbi Hier or for Judaism to be associated with Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric or his inauguration. It is a disgrace.

"While it’s fine to try to “understand” those who voted for Donald Trump, your compassion is, in my opinion, misplaced —...
11/18/2016

"While it’s fine to try to “understand” those who voted for Donald Trump, your compassion is, in my opinion, misplaced — or at best, incomplete. Calls for compassion and understanding for Trump supporters without an equally urgent call for the protection of those who are profoundly threatened by this administration have a flavor of bias similar to that which let “Stanford Rapist” Brock Turner off the hook. Can we, who are supposed to be more awake, please not do that thing where we jump right to compassion for the aggressors who voted for an explicitly homophobic, sexist, racist, violent president that’s readying an all out assault on vulnerable people?"

"I love you, Western Buddhism, but as a gay man, I find your privileged lack of urgency in the wake of the election of Donald trump disturbing."

“I pledge to you that because I am committed to the fight against anti-Semitism that if one day Muslim Americans are for...
11/18/2016

“I pledge to you that because I am committed to the fight against anti-Semitism that if one day Muslim Americans are forced to register their identities, that is the day that this proud Jew will register as Muslim."

'We must stand with our fellow Americans who may be singled out for how they look, where they’re from, who they love or how they pray,' Jonathan Greenblatt says. 'As Jews we know what it means to be forced to register.'

A very powerful story. It is up to all of us to challenge Islamophobia.
11/07/2016

A very powerful story. It is up to all of us to challenge Islamophobia.

On February 10, 2015, Suzanne Barakat's brother Deah, her sister-in-law Yusor and Yusor's sister Razan were murdered by their neighbor in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The perpetrator's story, that he killed them over a traffic dispute, went unquestioned by the media and police until Barakat spoke ou...

Are you in BC? Interested in making links between spiritual practice and systemic social change work? Check it out, and ...
10/26/2016

Are you in BC? Interested in making links between spiritual practice and systemic social change work? Check it out, and pass the info along!

CJN offers programs that sit at the intersection of personal and social change. Participants simultaneously learn spiritual practices and concrete systemic change tools, allowing long-term, sustainable and life-giving transformation of self and community.

Inspiring mid-life reflections from Alia Hogben, Executive Director of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW). "If ...
09/30/2016

Inspiring mid-life reflections from Alia Hogben, Executive Director of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW).

"If you’re born into a reasonable family and you’ve got enough food and clothes to wear and good health and so on – I believe in a God, I believe in a creator – I think it’s a test for you, because if you have all these things it’s not because you deserve it, but a test to see how you use all that to help others."

Now in her 70s, the executive director of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women tells The Globe about life in her 40s and what she’s learned since. Welcome to Halftime, a new ongoing series by Dave McGinn

Powerful.
06/12/2016

Powerful.

Berkeley-based rabbi Michael Lerner spoke as a representative of the Jewish faith at Muhammad Ali’s memorial service in Louisville today, and delivered a fiery sermon calling for a litany of social change, including the ending of drone warfare, the ending of Israeli West Bank occupation, and literal...

Happy Earth Day.
04/22/2016

Happy Earth Day.

This Earth Day calls us all to action. To efforts to realign our lives, and our human-created political and economic systems, with the regenerative and interdependent ecosystems upon which we rely. Join us.

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