Belonging to the World By John Thatamanil Countless are the passages in Christian scripture which suggest that Christians ought not to regard this world as their true home. Cultivating a sense of belonging to the world has almost never been an explicit goal of classical Christian teaching. Christians are not Read more
Change Comes from the Arts By Kocku von Stuckrad The relational turn is in full swing. More and more people realize that thinking in strict categories, or even binaries, lies at the roots of the planetary crisis we’re finding ourselves in. It is particularly the European heritage of toxic binaries Read more
Contraction vs Distraction: Toward Earthier Coalitions By Catherine Keller “Distracted by distraction from distraction.” That line from T.S. Eliot’s poem “Burnt Norton” has been circling in my head. It comes as a mutter when I think of the circulation of current world crises. A war with nuclear potential now distracts Read more
Creatures of a Common Home: Finding Our Way to Planetary Solidarity By John Thatamanil “Maybe when the aliens show up it will finally happen,” I said to my son. “What will happen?” he inquired. “A sense that we are all earthlings, children of the same planetary mother.” Some sense of Read more
Anything Goes… What Trumpism and the Covid-19 Pandemic Can Teach Us About Climate Crisis By Oliver Krüger These days, we Europeans are quick to diagnose a post-factual age in light of recent events in the United States. In the European media, the chaotic Trump presidency and his broad support from Read more
Lost in the Present By John Thatamanil The climate crisis, the COVID pandemic, the global rise of authoritarianism—these are just the handful of quandaries human communities must confront in our time. But how? What resources do we have to help us through life’s overwhelming hurly burly? Life is too complicated Read more
On Letting People Die: Coronavirus, Geronticide, and Other Worldly Matters By Teya Brooks Pribac “Charlie” – © Teya Brooks Pribac 2020 Small, realistic resolutions at the end of the year keep one happy and help get work done. Pleased with my 2019 analysis I began drafting plans for 2020. Nothing Read more
CPR for Planet Earth By Whitney A. Bauman In a recent blog, I wrote about the idea of a “critical Romanticism.” I have now come to think about this as a Critical Planetary Romanticism (CPR) for the earth. Again, it must be critical in order to address the fact that Read more
Climate Strikes as Rituals to Save the Earth By Sarah M. Pike Last month, hundreds of thousands of young people around the world walked out of classrooms and into the streets to draw attention to climate change and to protest government inaction. Focusing on Friday, September 20th as a day Read more
Let’s Get Metaphysical: A Response to James Miller on Cosmology and Practical Action on the Environment By John J. Thatamanil Photo credit: “Yin Yang” by Sapperlott is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 In a July 16th blog for this site, I suggested that religious believers who are broadly theistic need some compelling account of Read more