Why Endangered Species Need Patron Saints By Sarah M. Pike With some of my students, I bent down to fill a cup and drink from Saint Gobnait’s holy well in the woods near Ballyvourney, a small town in southern Ireland. Read more
Beyond Morality: Climate Crisis as a Global Public Health Crisis By James Miller In his recent blog post for Counterpoint, John J. Thatamanil raised an important question for theists and atheists alike: “Who then will save us?” Discussions of climate Read more
Animal Tales: Narrating the Cultural and Personal By Jay Johnston I’m thinking about stories. Those told by others, those I tell myself. This is part of my learning to think again after a frenetic, six-month period of “busy work”—the term Read more
What, if Anything, Can God Do? Divine Power and the Ecological Crisis By John J. Thatamanil Powerless—that is how many feel when facing the immense ecological challenges of our time. What can anyone do about the whole of India, an entire Read more
Yes and No to Pride, Fifty Years after Stonewall By Anna Mercedes Fifty years after Stonewall—the historic uprising begun in response to a police raid of a gay bar in New York City that launched the gay rights movement—I can Read more
A day of encounters, co-organized by the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture and Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge On 4 June 2019, Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge and the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture (ICOG) co-organized a forum Read more
The Other Side of the Mountain: Art, Ritual, and Climate Change By Susannah Crockford June volunteers to go first. She stands with legs apart in a firm stance, speaking slowly with a fixed gaze, “I am timeless. I am mystery. Read more
“Worthy Women”: Sexual Bargaining for a Place in Utopia—or Dystopia? By Dion Forster Some white women in South Africa who are followers of the Worthy Women movement are being encouraged to present themselves as sexual objects to their husbands, give Read more
It’s the Genes! It’s the Hair! It’s “Cooperativity”: An Evolutionary Account of Populism By Marcia Pally It’s a virus, a friend of mine said about the far-right wins in the May elections for the European Parliament. A 31 percent vote Read more
Looking Back: A Report on the Paradoxical Plausibilities Symposium – Astrological Interpretation from Different Perspectives (13–14 April, Berlin) By Sophia Löwe The question of astrological plausibility seems to spur endless discussions. Most professional astrologers and their clients grant astrology a Read more