Enter the Animal: Cross-species Perspectives on Grief and Spirituality – A Discussion Centered on Teya Brooks Pribac’s New Book Please join Counterpoint for an online discussion centered on Teya Brooks Pribac’s new book, Enter the Animal: Cross-species Perspectives on Grief and Spirituality (Sydney University Press, 2021) Date: 13 July 2021 Time: Read more
Beauty Will Save the World By Heather Eaton This famous and much discussed phrase from Prince Lev Nikolyaevich Myshkin in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot is that beauty will save the world. Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrestled with the enigmatic idea in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1970. It is the title Read more
Specters of Sorrow: Eco-Grief, Ambiguous Loss, and Religious Creativity By Jacob J. Erickson To live in the wake of a global pandemic is to be haunted by complex uncertainties. In planetary diversity, we navigate our relationships both within ongoing tangles of loss unknown as well as after, slowly making sense Read more
The Art Network: Artists For Plants By Sara Michieletto “Love” by Nina Maaley, France (posted on 23 April 2020) As you are all aware of, a pandemic is currently growing throughout the whole world. As this virus spreads, it also disseminates fear, isolation and suffering. These troubled times made the Read more
Minding the Gap: No Space for Women, Fifty Years and Counting By Jan Millsapps A telling moment at a 1974 Johns Hopkins symposium: As famed rocket scientist Wernher von Braun describes his plan for sending a man to Mars, someone in the audience asks, “What about women?” Von Braun’s glib Read more
Apocalypse Anymore? By Catherine Keller No doubt the Trump presidency incited my Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances. Finishing final revisions only weeks after the 2020 U.S. election, I was relieved as I went through it to realize how little of it was about him. He remains a Read more
“Born Free” – A Deceptive and Dangerous Story about South Africa’s Youth By Dion Forster Each year on the 16th of June, South Africans commemorate Youth Day. It is a day on which we remember the sacrifices made by young people in the struggle against apartheid. In particular, we remember Read more
Creatures of a Common Home: Finding Our Way to Planetary Solidarity By John Thatamanil “Maybe when the aliens show up it will finally happen,” I said to my son. “What will happen?” he inquired. “A sense that we are all earthlings, children of the same planetary mother.” Some sense of Read more
Sea Lions and Seeing the Future By Anna Mercedes It might have been the repetition that got me, but I think it was the sea lions. The repetition came in the form of all the Covid-19 “seconds.” A second set of spring holidays during quarantine. So many friends’ social media posts Read more
Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances A Discussion of Catherine Keller’s New Book Please join Counterpoint for an online discussion of Catherine Keller’s new book, Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances (Orbis Books 2021) Date: 11 May 2021 Time: 11:00-12:30 EST / 17:00-18:30 CET Drawing on Read more