Zelig Golden ( wildernesstorah.org ) How do we apply our personal experiences of teshuvah to a Great Turning—a broader social transformation toward justice and integrity? Here, Wilderness Torah participants gather in the forest to sing, meditate, and tap into Judaism’s earth-based roots. More

Creative Commons/U.S. Department of Labor Disability rights activists from ADAPT talk with U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Seth Harris about federal rules governing personal attendants. More

Amy Monthei The use of braille in this painting, live , by Amy Monthei, ensures that neither a blind nor a sighted person can experience its entirety alone. Only through interaction “will the mystery be revealed,” writes Monthei, who is legally blind. More

Creative Commons/Dina Litovsky Burners often come seeking companionship and share a belief in the possibility of sudden, profound personal transformation. The festival’s website reports that participants tend to form “significant new relationships or resolve to undertake ambitious projects More

Creative Commons In Social Trinitarianism, relationships with others are seen as constitutive of personhood, so the three persons of the Holy Trinity are not merely one with each other, they are “one in each other.” Scholars trace this approach back to St. Gregory of Nazianzus (above), a fourth More

Valerie Taliman and Indian Country Today Media Network “The face of the Other should strike doubt and obligation into any person of conscience,” the author writes. Here, protesters from Vancouver march to Ottawa to protest the abduction and murder rates faced by Native women in Canada. More

Creative Commons/Gary Dee “I give because it hurts me on a soul level when I close my heart and walk by a person in need,” Estelle Frankel writes. “When I give freely and generously I am connecting with my divine nature.” More

Noel Kleinman ( nkpix.com ) Rabbinic Judaism demands that city residents care for and accompany every person who passes through. What would it take to make such acts of care everyday occurrences rather than special events? Here, volunteers from The Giving Spirit in Los Angeles assemble survival More

Left to right: Ho Che Anderson; Library of Congress/Warren K. Leffler; Creative Commons/Giobanny Ascencio and Raul Lemus; Creative Commons/Tony Fischer; Library of Congress/Ed Ford; Creative Commons/OTFW Berlin What makes a person strong enough to risk his or her life for the sake of social More