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Recommended by Lauryn Axelrod

Finding moments of magic in the mess

Fantastic writing and deep transparency from someone who knows a thing or two about this wonderfully messy thing we call life.

- Lauryn Axelrod

Conversations on Non-Religious Spirituality

By Jim Palmer

A publication of the Center for Non-Religious Spirituality.

Deconstruction, Reconstruction and living a spiritual life without religion.

- Lauryn Axelrod

Calling All Conductors Substack

By John Axelrod

The personal and professional substack of international conductor, author and educator John Axelrod, founder of CMO: ConductorsMasterclassonline.com

If you love classical music, check out the deep insights into music and conducting from one of the world's best conductors.

- Lauryn Axelrod

Spirituality for the Politically Incorrect

By Nancy Showalter

Raising Consciousness and Empowering Creative Change Makers Who Dare to Create a Better Life and a Better World.

Nancy offers an interfaith dive that doesn't hold back.

- Lauryn Axelrod

Artful Spirituality

By Mary Coffey

Join me to explore being a soul-tending, permission-giving, creative soul, laughing!

DRIP, DRIP, DRIP

By Cyndi Lee

Buddhist wisdom for ordinary people on ordinary days. A slow and steady way to an awakened life. Sign up for Cyndi's substack to get monthly meditation prompts and learn about her upcoming retreats and teachings.

Cyndi Lee is a terrific teacher and offers radical Buddhist wisdom in a down-to-earth way.

- Lauryn Axelrod

Chasing Thunder

By Jay Grant

Travel stories, spiritual insights, mindfulness tips, and tales of the unexpected.

Wow Is Me

By Ellie Duke

A newsletter about awe / sacred belonging / divine wowness

Ellie is a Harvard Div school graduate who writes thoughtful personal essays on spirituality, art, and surfing.

- Lauryn Axelrod

Feed Your Head

By Adam Jacobs

A forum for Philosophy, Science, Spirituality, and the Arts.

An incredible collective collection of great writing on spirituality, science, philosophy, the arts and more.

- Lauryn Axelrod

Perennial Meditations

By J.W. Bertolotti

Tools for the Art of Living

JW is a wealth of knowledge on the great philosophers.

- Lauryn Axelrod

Changing The Channel with Kirsten Powers

New York Times bestselling author Kirsten Powers offers fresh thinking about how we can make big changes in our lives, communities and country.

Below the Bible Belt

By Amichai Lau-Lavie (he/him)

929 chapters, 42 months, daily reflections: Join R. Amichai’s 3+ years interactive online quest to question, queer + re-read between the lines of the entire Hebrew Bible, with daily reflections, weekly videos and monthly learning zooms. 2022-2025

Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is my go-to for radical Judaism. He's relevant and right-on.

- Lauryn Axelrod

Poetic Outlaws

A place for the outlaws of poetry and the written word.

Because there is never enough poetry. A good poem can be a glimpse into Divinity.

- Lauryn Axelrod

Immortality Study

By Robert J Coons

Learn Meditation, Qigong and Daoist Literature in the secular tradition founded by Chen Yingning.

Robbie Coons is a master of Daoist Neidan, one of the most radical spiritual practices I know.

- Lauryn Axelrod

The Cottage

By Diana Butler Bass

Part retreat, part think tank. A place for inspiration and ideas about culture, faith, and spirit.

Diana Butler Bass offers fresh insights for progressive Christianity from an interfaith perspective.

- Lauryn Axelrod

The Corners by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Grace for fuck-ups. Prayer for the impious. A space for spiritual misfits.

Nadia is radical in the best sense of the word. She's a hard-core advocate for helping people find faith in a world that has little of it. And she's about as sassy as it comes.

- Lauryn Axelrod

Jenny’s Justice Poetic Newsletter

By Jenny Justice

Poetry and Poetic Thoughts Once a Month