Do We Live in the Same World? Some Reflections on Polarization By Susannah Crockford When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade last week, it seemed like the United States was divided in two once again. Supporters of legal abortion Read more
EmPower: Climate Change and Gender Justice By Vera Pokorny Amidst ever louder calls for urgent action to drastically transform our societies and economies in the face of climate change, there is increasing recognition of climate change as a human rights Read more
Racial Reckoning beyond Reductionism By Krista E. Hughes Like so many, I am in the thick of the United States’ current racial reckoning, frustrated by the ways that white supremacy infects even proactive antiracist work, including my own. Among the Read more
The Climate Crisis Through the Eye of the Needle: Ecology, Economics, and Religion A Counterpoint Conversation with Joerg Rieger, Annika Rieger, and Marcia Pally 5 July 2022, 10:00-12:00 CET | Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Berlin and Zoom Counterpoint and the Rosa Luxemburg Read more
Beyond Gender Categories: The Bissu of Sulawesi By Najiyah Martiam Most academic work on gender in Indonesia shows that many cultures in Indonesia have no strict gender construction of masculinity and femininity. Gender differences are viewed as a continuum rather Read more
Entanglement and Relationality By Whitney A. Bauman At a recent one-day symposium in Berlin on “The Body, Religion and Planetary Imagination in a Time of Environmental Crisis,” I was asked what I meant when I used the word “entanglement” and Read more
Hunting Where the Ducks Are: The Big-Picture of White Evangelical Populism in the US By Marcia Pally White evangelicals comprise a full 25 percent of American voters. Many have supported Vladimir Putin, both before the invasion of Ukraine and since. Read more
Contraction vs Distraction: Toward Earthier Coalitions By Catherine Keller “Distracted by distraction from distraction.” That line from T.S. Eliot’s poem “Burnt Norton” has been circling in my head. It comes as a mutter when I think of the circulation of Read more
A Spirituality of Work? By Dion Forster I need to begin with a confession of sin. In the late 1990’s I was serving as the minister of a vibrant faith community in Cape Town. Our church, like many others, had Read more
Stolen Focus as Spiritual Crisis: On Joining the “Attention Rebellion” By John Thatamanil Of the creation and enumeration of crises, there is no end. Any short list of major contemporary crises must include the ongoing COVID pandemic, the ecological crisis, Read more