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I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with the Jewish Buddhist teacher and

psychotherapist, mother and grandmother, Sylvia Borstein. There is, as always, a shorter,

produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.

Good evening. I want to welcome you to a very special experience, Metro Parent Magazine,

and WDET's Spirituality and Parenting. My name is Alisa Martina and I'm the publisher of

Metro Parent Magazine. And we're thrilled, absolutely thrilled to have Christa Tippett

here tonight as our keynote speaker. And we're so glad that all of you could join us. Thank you

so very much for being in attendance. Now, we call tonight's evening a conversation on wisdom

and learning in the modern family. And for those of you who are parents as I am, you know that

being a parent is one of the most challenging spiritual journeys you can take, especially today.

The faith landscape in America has changed profoundly over the years.

Maybe some of you have left your childhood religion for something different, as is now the case

for 28% of adults in this country. Or maybe you're an blended faith family. Or perhaps you still

attend the same church synagogue or mosque as you did as a kid. Regardless, once you have kids,

they have plenty of questions and you all know that. And finding those answers is no small task.

And so tonight we hope that we'll be able to find some of those answers and help arise some of our

exploration and self-discovery. But before we begin, I want to give a huge thank you to our sponsors.

They are Christ Church Birmingham, Madonna University in Lovonia, the College for Creative

Studies and Detroit, and the American Red Cross. It's because of them that tonight is possible.

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