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Return, Reimagine, Ritualize, Rebel: How has 2020 changed your spiritual life?

by Francesca Hyatt | July 21, 2020 | ,

KtB is inviting submissions about how the events of this year have impacted your spiritual life.


KtB is inviting submissions about how the events of this year have impacted your spiritual life. Have you returned to a practice long forgotten, or turned to something new? Are you at odds with or inspired by your faith community’s response to the virus?  How have you been spiritually affected or motivated by racialized violence and the protests against it? 

In a way, this is what KtBniks are always doing—reckoning with the meeting of spirit and matter, finding our place within chosen and inherited religious communities, probing our doubts, celebrating our revelations, taking stands for and against and adjacent to what we believe and believed and want to believe.

Now, in a year framed by pandemic, in the heat of righteous rage against police violence, in the existential uncertainties of the

Religious Groups Stand With #BlackLivesMatter

In the aftermath of the police killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Tony McDade, people across the nation have organized marches, vigils, monument removals, and sit-ins to protest racialized police violence. Religious groups are among those raising their voices.

Binkley Memorial Church sanctuary with camera

God Bless and Be Well

What does church look like when the Baptists go online in a science town?

William Blake's image of Ezekiel mourning his wife

Prophetic Confinement

“Go, be confined inside your house!” Pandemic parallels stretch back as far as the sixth century BCE, when even the prophets Ezekiel and Jeremiah were restricted to their homes during their ministry.

A New Ramadan

This year’s Ramadan promised to be different before it started.

In the Garden

One of the last things I did in the time I now think of only as before was to take a hike at Occonneechee Mountain State Natural Area in North Carolina with my boyfriend. It was early March, and everything was still brown, save for patches of moss alongside the path. We thought it would be nice…

Thomas Cole-Pilgrim of the World

Apocalyptabuse, or How to Survive “The End”

Call this fantasized thinking apocalyptabuse: the demoralizing mythic-psychic warfare that deprives people of hope, makes us fear that The End is near, and thereby cuts off our aspirations of any earthly life to come.

blue ridge mountains in springtime

Dispatches from Isolation, Vol. 1

Abandon most of your plans, except for the quiet house in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a promise of isolation that you desired before it was mandated.

an empty cracked egg with a downy feather attached

The Empty Tomb

How could we anticipate something so seemingly simple as peace, when something as violent as a virus is tearing through our lives, our traditions, our loves?

Cover of Albert Camus, The Plague, showing a photo of a man with a red plague mask drawn over his face.

Camus’ The Plague: Coronavirus Quotes

Do all you can to fight plague where you find it, and don’t forget to love: a selection of some of the most relevant quotes from Camus’ The Plague for a time of coronavirus.

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