Many Californians were outraged by the verdict. Here, members of the Los Angeles Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant appealed to a U.S. congresswoman in July 2010 for support in the continuing effort to secure justice for Grant and his family. More

Close to 40 percent of children in many areas of the West Bank struggle with PTSD, the author writes. Here, a child perches in a car destroyed by an August 2006 Israeli military incursion into the Askar Refugee Camp, during which two homes were bulldozed. Credit: Creative Commons/Michael.Loadenthal. More

Many Jewish families continue to view their observation of the Torah’s circumcision command as a joyous occasion. Credit: Creative Commons/spilltojill. More

This cave painting is one of the many illustrations interleaved with David Wojahn’s poems in “Ochre.” Credit: Tristan Kerr. More

Creative Commons/Anne Fitten Glenn Many progressives are upset about how President Obama has coddled Wall Street. Yet he has also signed the biggest antipoverty bill in forty years and attained health coverage for millions of uninsured people. How is he doing on his promise to deliver the “change More

Creative Commons/National Economic and Social Rights Initiative After many demonstrations like this one, Vermont’s government passed a statewide single-payer health care initiative in May 2011. State and municipal reforms can pave the way for more systemic transformation at the national level. More

The Hawara checkpoint in the West Bank is one of many in the occupied territories. Magne Hagesæter More

Pointillism shows the bringing together of many parts to create a whole. Maximilien Luce More

Relationships with nature provide many people a sense of the mystery of creative power. Photo by Miguel Vieira More

Many scholars come to consciousness studies to explore the mysteries of their own interior experience. Compromises between those who bring different motivations and ideologies to the study of human consciousness often force science into an uneasy relationship with religion. More

Newsart/Jim Meehan With so many politicians pledging allegiance to corporate expediency, morality is falling by the wayside. We need a religious counterculture to stand for justice. Illustration by Jim Meehan. More

Creative Commons/Adam Jones For many theologians, the cross is a symbol not of blood redemption, but of hope even amid suffering. C. Kavin Rowe warns that excising the symbol of the cross would decimate the “specifically Christian impetus to work with and for those who are being bruised More

Diane Ovalle ( dianeovalle.com ) “Many cannot get right with the law even though they would like to,” the authors write. Here, a mother and daughter face arrest together while protesting U.S. immigration policy outside the 2012 Democratic National Convention in North Carolina. More

Fiona Ostby ( fionaostby.com ) “Many people don’t know about midlife discrimination, which means they blame themselves rather than capitalism,” Gullette writes. “We should fear ageism, not aging.” Illustration by Fiona Ostby. More

Alexandra Martinez ( leximartinez.com ) “People have many different ways of using worship to astonish rather than to dull,” the author writes. The first eleven women ordained irregularly in the Episcopal Church astonished churchgoers by laying out the best linens and then pouring the communion More

Michael Woloschinow ( marlenaagency.com ) The U.S. Left alienates many with its dry language of rights and policies. Powerful change may follow once the Left starts speaking to the heart. Illustration by Michael Woloschinow. More