Not Survival, but Prophecy… Is This a Monastic Moment? By Dion Forster In some parts of the world daily life is starting to return to “normal,” whatever that may mean. Of course, this is not the case for everybody. Poorer Read more
Poetry for a Polarized People By Anna Mercedes My biggest fears of late have not been of the obvious things. Those are also fears: the earthquakes and the hurricanes and the floods. The upheaval in Afghanistan.The Delta variant. Yet my Read more
“An Inescapable Network of Mutuality”: On 9/11 and Nonviolence By John Thatamanil Twenty years ago, in the pages of the Los Angeles Times, just weeks after the events of 11 September 2001, I urged rhetorical rather than military restraint. I felt Read more
The Im/Possibility of Global Solidarity By Catherine Keller Recently I found myself part of a conversation about the question: “Can Human Solidarity Globalize?” At first, political philosopher Richard Falk’s question sounds straightforward. But as one attempts to frame an answer, Read more
Everybody Knows By Marcia Pally It feels like the whole thing is falling apart. Not just a tragic news story here or there but the whole network of human-human and human-planet interactions that makes life as we know it. Kaboom: Read more
Germany, Antisemitism, and Blackness By Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor Just recently, Germany has made the significant step in acknowledging its colonial genocide in Namibia. It has stunned the world with its generosity by promising more than one billion dollars Read more
Marvelous Companions, Past and Present By Sven Gins One of the side effects of the pandemic has been a surge of interest in pet companions, both animal and machine. Many seniors—suddenly cut off from tangible human contact with friends and Read more
What Are the Time-Scapes of Our Thinking? By Whitney A. Bauman Timescape: 1) A perspective over a period (particularly a long period) of time. 2) A multidimensional view of time, especially one in which time travel occurs. (From Wiktionary) As Read more
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 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 Read more