Facing the Fall By Whitney A. Bauman “Burn it all down,” was the recent response of a friend when we were talking about the 2024 US election, the conflicts in Israel-Palestine, the rise of nationalisms everywhere, and the lack of governments around the world to respond adequately to global climate Read more
Out of the Depths: Denialism, Nihilism, and the Possibility of Ecological Civilization By Catherine Keller At this moment in this prematurely aging new year, with Omicron omnipresent, I do not want to discuss the virus. You already know it reveals environmental imbalance, social injustice, global interdependence. Instead, I want to 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, it takes on the hint of a Zen koan. An Read more
Apocalypse Anymore? By Catherine Keller No doubt the Trump presidency incited my Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances. Finishing final revisions only weeks after the 2020 U.S. election, I was relieved as I went through it to realize how little of it was about him. He remains a Read more
Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances A Discussion of Catherine Keller’s New Book Please join Counterpoint for an online discussion of Catherine Keller’s new book, Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances (Orbis Books 2021) Date: 11 May 2021 Time: 11:00-12:30 EST / 17:00-18:30 CET Drawing on Read more
Democalypse Now: Unveiling our Chances By Catherine Keller What, no more apocalypse? Has the dramatic lurch into catastrophe—white supremacist mobilization, COVID-19, climate denialism—suddenly petered out? Its causes and its supporters aren’t disappearing; their idol Trump wasn’t convicted. But they can no longer claim sovereign superpower. And yet: the roaring red Read more
Is This an Apocalypse? We Certainly Hope So—You Should Too By Catherine Keller and John Thatamanil The COVID-19 pandemic has many Christian communities wondering if the Apocalypse has finally arrived. We very much hope so. No, we are not Christian fundamentalists praying to precipitate calamitous world-ending conflict and mass death Read more
Welcome. This is a trauma-informed group. By Anna Mercedes Counterpoint is a reminder that we need to listen to each other, especially to voices beyond our usual crowds and disciplines, in order to heal the ways we inhabit this planet together. Thus I read Susannah Crockford’s post and, facing my Read more
Who Knows the Day and the Hour? Date Setting, Climate Change, and Apocalypse By Susannah Crockford We have twelve years to save the world. When I first heard this statement in June 2018, it was a reference to the work of Kevin Anderson, the climate scientist whose calculations suggested that 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 subcontinent, running out of water? What are we to do Read more