We can't just sit around and watch life go by through the window

The phrase above is from our interviewee, the young Débora Priscila Rabelo, from Rio Grande do Sul from Novo Hamburgo (RS), founder of the Online Spiritist Study Group Our Home Friends, created last year. She is graduated in Journalism, she has been carrying out, independently, extensive spiritualist dissemination work through the channel Our Home Friends (Amigos de Nosso Lar), which she tells us about it in an interview she kindly gave us.

“The great educator” and miseducated educators is the title of this week's Special, in which Vladimir Alexei makes considerations about education and its importance in human progress. But, although he recognizes that developing intelligence is important for the progress of the spirit, he reminds us that this development is not, in itself, a guarantee of ethical-moral development.

In 2004, historian and writer Eduardo Carvalho Monteiro participated in the World Spiritist Congress in Paris when the 200th anniversary of the birth of Allan Kardec was celebrated. At the congress, he gave a lecture and also made an exhibition of rare spiritist periodicals, illustrating the history of Spiritism and its exponents, as shown by Izabel Vitusso in a special article, one of the highlights of this issue.

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From this edition onwards, our fellow spiritist Solange Grande, who lives in San Antonio, Texas (United States), where she participates in the San Antonio Kardec Spiritist Center, begins to collaborate with our magazine, as translator of the Specials into the English language. The new member of our team replaces our partner Eleni Frangatos, who had to take time off work for health treatment.