By contributing writer Maria Christian. Originally published in KidSpirit's "God Issue."

The first time I wanted to go to church, I was about 6 or 7.

I had always been a weird little kid, tall with kind of thick "nerd glasses," the girl who played "orphans" instead of...

By contributing writer Vidushi Sharma for KidSpirit's Money and Value issue.

This June, if you'd walked into the last KidSpirit Editorial Board meeting of the year, you would have seen a group of kids widely ranging in age. Some of us had cookies and milk in our hands;...

By contributing writer Elly Goetz. Originally published in KidSpirit Magazine's God Issue.

The idea of God is different for everyone and is possibly many things even to one person. We all have different ideas of what and who God is.

Some people do not believe in God at...

By contributing writer Khalid Husain for KidSpirit's "Lens on Learning" issue.

"Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who have strong moral character. And if we wish...

By contributing writer Gracie Griffin for KidSpirit's Exploring Time issue.

How does a person know when something inside of them is changing?

Things do change. Storms turn into sun, snow melts into spring. People change. Perhaps a new talent or hobby is rising out of the abyss that...

By contributing writer Sidarth Jayadev. Originally published in KidSpirit's Money and Value issue.

What is true happiness? Can money buy happiness?

True happiness is a volatile subject that many people debate. It is often defined as a type of feeling that a person enjoys from their heart. But...

By contributing writer Mollie Griminger. Originally published in KidSpirit's Money and Value issue.

I've spent a lot of time studying my religion and its values. My family is a member of the Conservative tradition of Judaism, which is usually thought of as the "in between" form of Judaism....

By contributing writer Catherine Hochman. Originally published in KidSpirit's Science and Spirit issue.

Maybe religion is the result of our neurons firing chemical signals at one another. Maybe it is a mistake caused by natural selection. Or maybe it is the by-product of society's effort to impose authority....

By contributing writer Akash Mehta. Originally published in KidSpirit Magazine's Question of Meaning issue.

Perhaps I should start off by making one thing clear: I know nothing about anything I'm about to write about. This article is purely engendered from curiosity -- it's merely my personal exploration of...

By Elizabeth Berg, with other teen contributions. Originally published in KidSpirit Magazine's Roots of Spirit issue.

If you look up the word "spirit" in the dictionary, you will find about five or six meanings. Spirit can be a ghost. Spirit can be a part of you that...

By contributing writer Khalid Husain, originally published in KidSpirit's Conflict and Peacemakers issue.

In this article, "peace among ourselves" refers to diplomatic peace between nations and ultimately humans coming together as one with no hardships that stem from their disagreements. In addition, "world peace" refers to peace and...

By contributing writer Zachary Young. Originally published in KidSpirit's Ethics and Morality issue.

What are morals and where do they come from? Is morality like the laws of physics, ironclad dicta from nature? Or is morality like language, where there is no "right answer" but different languages that...

In honor of Gandhi's birthday on Oct. 2, we are reprinting an article by contributing writer Prerna Chatterjee, originally published in KidSpirit's Conflict and Peacemakers issue.

"Love feels no burdens, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it...

By contributing writer Akash Mehta. Originally published in KidSpirit's Conflict and Peacemakers issue.

We live in a violent world filled with conflict, and we always have. But every member of every generation has a responsibility to our world -- to, in our own way, try to lessen the...

By contributing writer Vidushi Sharma. Originally published in KidSpirit's Ethics & Morality issue.

For most people my age, philosophy is something tantalizing, but always out of reach -- referenced enough that we feel we should understand it, but so dense and abstract that we are convinced that we...

By contributing writer Saim Alam. Originally published in KidSpirit's Rituals & Traditions issue.

Eid ul-Fitr means the celebration of the end of Ramadan. During Eid ul-Fitr we give donations to those in need in the community -- the donations are called Fitrana. The significance of this holiday is...

By contributing writer Elizabeth Berg. Originally published as the Big Question in KidSpirit Magazine's Rituals & Traditions Issue.

My dad steps out of the car, looks around at the surrounding stores, and grumbles. "I can't believe how much this area has changed."

He sighs. "When I was growing...

By contributing writer Rebecca Brudner. Originally published in KidSpirit Magazine's Science and Spirit issue.

On Sept. 10, 2008, scientists near the border of France and Switzerland turned on a huge particle accelerator called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Among other things, the LHC was created to simulate...

By contributing writer Rachel Mae Aguilar. Originally published in KidSpirit Magazine's Change & Loss Issue.

Change and loss are part of everyone's lives.

They can be either beneficial or hurtful, but in each case transformation can cause us to change spiritually. In...

The Internet affords the average person unprecedented access to channels for communication. It has also become the new frontier for bullying.

This new form of online bullying...