Fourteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai achieved global fame in 2012 when she was shot in the face by the Taliban for speaking publicly on behalf of girls’ education. When she recovered, she continued her activism, writing a memoir, I am Malala, which was published in 2013 and spent more than 52 weeks on the New York Times’ bestsellers list. In 2014, she became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize […]
Youth leadership | MOON Shine
“I am not here to create more followers. I am here to inspire more leaders.” – Xiuhtezcatl Martinez “Look at Parkland. Look at the extraordinary courage of those young people. We all must be engaged in that. To not just not take pride in Emma González and her cronies; but to say, ‘How can I be Emma González?’” – Eugene Jarecki “They thought that the bullets would silence us, but […]
Rebecca Nelson | Currents of faith
Standing ankle-deep in a creek on an isolated mountain in southeastern Arizona, I encountered faith. The creek burbled. Sycamore leaves fluttered. Reflections shape-shifted in blue-green fractals. Red mud pulsed with sun. Faith was not an object I could find or lose, not the purple stones I picked up and tossed back into the water, nor my shoes resting on the shore. Faith was a current, cool and foamy, of strong […]
Arthur Carey | Fourth of July
Ahmad jerked awake, dragged from uneasy sleep by the wail of a siren on the street below. In his dream, he had been back in the desert in Afghanistan, firing an AK-47 at targets stuffed with straw to resemble men. He was exhausted, worn out from non-stop travel. Was it only days before he had been living with his mother Ameena in a mud house in a village? Now he […]
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