religion + spirituality

Like Sophie, my dad’s life features three potential fathers. Unfortunately, no singing and dancing are involved in this story.

In the summer of 2023, my high school friend Ash asked me to guide him through a ritual he believed would cure him of his OCD. What he didn’t know is I was struggling with a compulsion of my own.

Gary Baker spent his whole life keeping a secret. It was only after a heart attack and quintuple bypass surgery that he was forced to face the truth in broad daylight: he could see spirits.

In the family tree, trauma’s roots run deep. After losing a family member to addiction, one young woman confronts the pain of her past and reconnects to her Indigenous identity.

Guru. Enterpriser. Sponsor — to me, he was just Grandpa. Since he died two years ago, I’ve been scripting the final conversation I wish we could have had.

While trapped in war-torn Kharkiv, Ukraine, a young couple faced a new fear — becoming parents amidst the bombing. Like many others, they had a hard decision to make. Stay and try to survive, or leave to build a new life elsewhere.

Is this dress okay? What should we make for dinner? Is my life on the right track? While my Portuguese grandmother and I don’t speak the same language, something deeper than language binds us together.

When you’ve got a foot in three worlds, it’s hard to know where you belong.

We may not know what happens after we die, but we should know the environmental impact of our end-of-life decisions.

When a tragic death in the family occurs, a young second-generation Laotian woman is forced to confront her cultural identity and reconcile with her past.

Disclaimer: The author has changed some names in this piece. Listen to the poem this piece is based on: carve my initials into your thighs g.o. My childhood bedroom has lilac purple walls and a black and white desk. It’s almost empty now, but there are still remnants of my childhood clinging to the pink floral […]

When your identity and your religion collide, how do you find a place to call home?