Holly Stevens announces her decision to stop publishing The Storyteller and the Listener Online so that she will have more time for pursuing some other interests.

Corrected URL and summary: In transition, the editor of The Storyteller and the Listener Online seeks ways to continue the discussion of what story can do in peacemaking, healing, bridge building and reconciliation processes.

Six respected storytellers and cultural thought leaders consider the issues involved in using story as a resource for community development, in a collaborative experiment that yields new insights.

Christopher Ellinger and Chloe Green of the True Story Theater, a "Playback Theatre" troupe, relate how their form of improvisational theatre for social healing inspires dialogue and embraces community.

A group poem, composed by members of the Healing Story listserv, describes the formative storytellers in their lives.

Maurice Broaddus, father of two biracial children, reflects on the stories that comprise his children's eclectic heritage and how such stories could lead toward reconciliation between the races.

Israeli storyteller Dvora Shurman writes about the role her personal stories played in her healing from painful childhood experiences as the daughter of a deaf mother in an era when deafness was less understood and more stigmatized.

Australian storyteller Bettina Nissen describes the "Let's Read" project that promotes literacy through the recording of oral stories of aboriginal peoples.

We need stories to provide a vision of who we are in the larger story of creation. But to learn our stories, sacred space must be provided for the telling. Wisdom teacher Gregory Woods shares his ideas about storytelling in child development.

Myths help us see that the dark passages in our own lives are part of the collective human experience. In today's issue of The Storyteller and the Listener Online, Joan Stockbridge describes her work with myth as a therapeutic storyteller.

Carla Vogel, a professional storyteller, educator and community artist from Minnesota, describes how telling our life stories through ethical wills yields a greater understanding of one's legacy.

She had an original love story ready to go for her daughter's wedding. But when circumstances prevented the telling, disappointment eventually led to a love story of another kind.

Arianna Ross sees her storytelling as a tapestry created from the threads of her international experience as an ethnographer, writer, teaching artist, dancer, musician and photographer. Through her art, she creates bridges between cultures.

Journalist Marina Cantacuzino set out with a photographer friend in 2003 to record the stories of people who have found their way to forgiveness in the wake of atrocity, discovering the healing essence of storytelling.

Washington, D.C., performing artist Vera Oye Yaa-Anna tells the story of her stroke, transforming her work as a storyteller into a focus on narrative as a healing process.

Boston psychologist Lani Peterson describes her work helping ex-offenders advocate both for themselves and for penal reform through the power of storytelling.

A panel of six with varying backgrounds and perspectives considers the role story and narrative play in shaping attitudes towards gay and lesbian issues and concerns.

Soldier's Heart staff member Maureen Daly tells how the sharing of stories within the supportive confines of a weekend long experiential retreat helped move a group of veterans of six wars along toward emotional and spiritual healing.

J. A. Joshi, a young storyteller of Indian origin, shares how the stories of her motherland have helped her straddle two cultures as she grew up in the West.

Holly Stevens, editor and publisher of The Storyteller and the Listener Online, shares the story of her choice to embrace new year's themes instead of resolutions and how this has made all the difference.

A portal to essays published during 2006 in The Storyteller and the Listener Online.

Yoga teacher and storyteller Sydney Solis writes about her early childhood exposure to the stories of many religions and how this immersion into religious ideas and expressions led her to organize the World Peace Interfaith Storytelling Gatherings of

Claremont School of Theology associate professor Frank Rogers reflects on the potential role of storytelling in the emerging theology of young people and invites communities of faith to incorporate more authentic storytelling into congregational life

Sociologist Francesca Polletta examines the role of storytelling in an online discussion on the design of the new World Trade Center and discovers its advantages in democratic processes of deliberation.

As an officiate at weddings, funerals and other ceremonies, celebrant Stacy Willhoit listens for the heroic journey in the stories her clients tell.