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  Today's meditation from  Weekly Soul: Fifty-two Meditations on Meaningful, Joyful, and Peaceful Living   by Dr. Frederic Craigie. -27-   Love is another word that is a bit (or a lot) ruined- something we routinely speak of as something we fall into and fall out of. But as a piece of intelligence about what makes us human, and what we are capable of, it is a virtue and way of being we have scarcely begun to mine. People who have turned the world on its axis across history have called humanity to love. It’s time to dare this more bravely in our midst, and dare learning together how love can be practical, creative, and sustained as a social good.   Krista Tippett   Love can change the world. There is the rippling, accumulative effect of treating each person you meet with dignity and grace, but there is more. Creatively applied, love fuels activism that reconfigures the world in the public sphere, as it does among individuals. Jonathan Cedar is a professional...

  Spiritual Fitness and the Quiet Power of July 2 Some dates announce themselves with fireworks. Others hum with a quieter, steadier power—like July 2. Long before the ink dried on the Declaration of Independence, July 2 marked the vote that set a nation’s soul in motion. A century and a half later, it bore witness to the Civil Rights Act of 1964—where dignity defied division and conscience reshaped law. From the unification of Vietnam to the birth of voices like Thurgood Marshall and Medgar Evers, July 2 is a day braided with ethical resolve, moral imagination, and collective rebirth. These milestones didn’t just alter policy. They transformed people. They carved deeper grooves of spiritual and psychological fitness—teaching us how to rise, reckon, and rebuild from within. At MSI Press, we believe in that kind of transformation—the kind that begins not in spectacle, but in quiet personal revolution. Many of our books echo this evolution; to wit: The Rose and the Sword (Bach ...

Today's meditation from  Weekly Soul: Fifty-two Meditations on Meaningful, Joyful, and Peaceful Living   by Dr. Frederic Craigie. -26-   Not everyone is called to a life of service—at least, not in the most obvious sense of becoming a social worker or volunteering in a soup kitchen. Indeed, many who take that path soon realize that even these activities can become divorced from the rest of your life. Service, defined broadly, can be how you interact with each person and in each situation, no matter what the circumstances are.   Gerald Jampolsky   Before she became a best-selling author, Marianne Williamson had a job for a time as a cocktail waitress. She came to realize that the most important part of this work was not serving up drinks; it was reaching out and making a personal connection, one-by-one, with patrons. Reflecting on this understanding of service, she commented that every business could be “a front for a church.” You see this understanding of servic...