Climate Strikes as Rituals to Save the Earth By Sarah M. Pike Last month, hundreds of thousands of young people around the world walked out of classrooms and into the streets to draw attention to climate change and to protest government inaction. Focusing on Friday, September 20th as a day Read more
Welcome. This is a trauma-informed group. By Anna Mercedes Counterpoint is a reminder that we need to listen to each other, especially to voices beyond our usual crowds and disciplines, in order to heal the ways we inhabit this planet together. Thus I read Susannah Crockford’s post and, facing my Read more
Understanding the Influence of Contemporary Evangelical Christianities By Dion Forster In an era of increasing secularization, evangelical Christianities are becoming increasingly influential in public life. What are the reasons behind this? And how should we understand this development? Recent research suggests that the social identity of evangelical Christian individuals and Read more
Who Knows the Day and the Hour? Date Setting, Climate Change, and Apocalypse By Susannah Crockford We have twelve years to save the world. When I first heard this statement in June 2018, it was a reference to the work of Kevin Anderson, the climate scientist whose calculations suggested that Read more
The (Really) Originalist Position on Guns—and Your Fife and Drum, Too By Marcia Pally Odessa, Texas: 31 Aug. 2019. Dayton, Ohio: 4 Aug. 2019. El Paso, Texas: 3 Aug. 2019. Virginia Beach, Virginia: 31 May 2019. Aurora, Illinois: 15 Feb. 2019. Thousand Oaks, California: 7 Nov. 2018. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 27 Read more
Counterpoint One Year On: Reflections and Experiences By Whitney A. Bauman and Kocku von Stuckrad One trip around the sun, four seasons, four events, and fifty blog posts later, Counterpoint is turning one! We have had a great year, in large part thanks to our magnificent team and collaborators. We’d Read more
Shorter and Sweeter By Alissa Jones Nelson The issue of immortality, whether spiritual or corporeal, has fascinated human beings for as long as we’ve told stories. The idea of eternal life has been both a motivation for better behavior in this life and a panacea (or a placebo) for all Read more
Here’s to Astrology! By Kocku von Stuckrad Astrology is a fascinating and controversial topic. Many people in Europe and North America share the idea that astrology is some superstitious gibberish (perhaps with the exception of millennials who seem to love astrology and create a new boom in online astrology). And Read more
Let’s Get Metaphysical: A Response to James Miller on Cosmology and Practical Action on the Environment By John J. Thatamanil Photo credit: “Yin Yang” by Sapperlott is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 In a July 16th blog for this site, I suggested that religious believers who are broadly theistic need some compelling account of Read more
Developing a Critical Romanticism By Whitney A. Bauman Modern human thought, philosopher Bruno Latour writes, “takes us far away” from the physical world. It defies connections to matter, as if thought were distinct from the bodies that enable them, and at the same time, it hopes to improve upon that Read more