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Sacred Live: Oliver Burkeman on living a meaningful life in the present moment

The Sacred

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The Importance of Politics in Quakerism

I was raised as a Quaker. I think the idea that you can't have a meaningful religion without some kind of political engagement feels a lot more fraught now because it feels like not enough politics in things is not our problem right. The idea that things need to be more politicized doesn't feel like the challenge of the moment. One of the strangest emotional experiences of the last couple of years was sitting down to watch the Disney movie in Canto, the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical about intergenerational trauma. Sitting down to watch it just like we'd watched Moana and Toy Story or whatever and like being completely emotionally blindsided by that film in a way that my son absolutely

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