What Time is Now: Nonlinearity and Climate Activism By Susannah Crockford Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about nonlinearity. Though simply it means that the line between point A and point B is often not a direct one, it can Read more
Everyday Bravery: Knowledge Ruptures in Action By Jay Johnston In casting around for my next “bedtime book,” I selected the five hundred paged tome Call of the Reed Warbler: An New Agriculture, A New Earth (2017) by Charles Massey. I Read more
A roundtable discussion at the conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (ISSRNC), devoted to “Religion/Water/Climate: Changing Cultures and Landscapes,” University College Cork, Cork City, Ireland, 13-16 June 2019 In the midst of what Read more
Is it Time to Give Up on Forgiveness among Black and White South Africans? By Dion Forster Is it time to give up on forgiveness among black and white South Africans? Yes—at least in the way forgiveness has come to Read more
Getting Out of and Into the Common Good By Marcia Pally I’m writing this blog just on returning from a conference hosted by the Thomist Center in New York. The center aims at scholarly research on the work of Thomas Read more
A day of encounters, co-organized by the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture and Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge 4 June 2019 in Groningen, The Netherlands Discussions about sustainability often focus on questions of health, technology, and economic value. Ecological Read more
The Lure of the Separate: Reflections on Christianity, Nationalism, and Empire By Retief Müller I grew up in South Africa in late apartheid. Now, I am a church historian and curious about how Christianity and themes of national or ethnic Read more
Making Kin By Alissa Jones Nelson “Make kin, not babies.” Donna J. Haraway’s four-word gauntlet, thrown down in her 2016 book Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, becomes more relevant every day. As a woman who has Read more
Poetic Science: How Literature Conveys Knowledge of Nature By Kocku von Stuckrad For most non-specialists, much information about the natural world is drawn from newspapers, TV, and popular books. Even scientists are influenced by those sources. Another source of knowledge, Read more
On Life, Dogs, and Chernobyl By Whitney A. Bauman (Ferris Wheel, Pripyat, Ukraine) As someone who works in the broad field of “religion and nature,” and who regularly teaches a course on “Earth Ethics,” I jumped at the opportunity to Read more