Making a Mess By Alissa Jones Nelson My last blog post suggested that we need to think anew—personally and politically—about population growth and having children in the light of the current ecological crisis. I drew on Donna Haraway’s pithy directive Read more
Point/Counterpoint: A Blogger Exchange Point: Ending the Taker Culture By Loriliai Biernacki In a May 15th Counterpoint posting, Kocku von Stuckrad made the case for an alternative to the “Taker culture,” that is destroying our planetary resources. I want to muddy Read more
Unholy Alliances and the End of Taker Culture By Kocku von Stuckrad When on 6 May 2019 the United Nations published the new Report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the news sent shockwaves around Read more
Progress for Whom and What? By Whitney A. Bauman Steven Pinker’s recent book Enlightenment Now argues that despite all recent, post-modern claims to the contrary, we can still be certain that reason and science are making the world a better Read more
How Not to Be the Easter Police: On the Resurrection of the Earth By John J. Thatamanil Photo by Marion Grau A certain kind of theologian—I was once one among them—scrupulously draws a sharp dichotomy between the “pagan” elements of Read more
The Theology of Evangelista By Zairong Xiang And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.—1 Corinthians 13:13 On the widely claimed FX series POSE, Damon Richards, before moving to New York, was beaten Read more
Memorializing in the Aftermath of Disaster By Sarah M. Pike Car keys dangled on the white chain link fence. A note next to them read “These keys made our lives so fabulous…Cars and a house—it’s time to say goodbye.” Nearby, Read more
What Not to Say When You Pray By Anna Mercedes On March 25, 2019 Movita Johnson-Harrell took her seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, the first female Muslim to do so there. But just before Johnson-Harrell was sworn in, Read more
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