Sallamah Aliah

Sallamah Aliah is a social care worker and writer in Chicago, drawn to questions of family history, belonging, and social imagination. She supports prospective students of Upaya’s Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program as they discern their path into the training.

Sallamah Aliah in Kosmos

Urban Villages and the Solidarity Economy

Published in Special Feature

Offering Deep Presence at the End of Life

Through her training at Upaya and service as a hospital chaplain, the author learns that chaplaincy is not a profession but a way of life. In moments of death, fear, and vulnerability, she discovers the power of presence—standing with others in their fire and finding her own promise to live.

Published in Volume 25 Issue 5

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,