“The Journey of Pachamama” – Dark Green Christianity in West Germany During the 1980s By Maria Schubert and Simon Wiesgickl In 1989, the German theologian Bärbel von Wartenberg-Potter wrote a small book with the title “The Journey of Pachamama.” In her book, she shared her insights from her encounters with Read more
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
Crocodiles are Our Twins: Recognizing Animals as Persons By Andi Alfian In 2020, a group of Bugis people in Makassar City, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, discovered a crocodile emerging from the Tallo River, which they believed was their collective relative, and the incarnation of their ancestors. In the Bugis community we Read more
The Role of Indigenous Women in Ecological Activism: Deforestation in North Sumatra By Bibi Suprianto The deforestation of indigenous peoples’ land in North Sumatra is a long, ongoing problem. One such community is the indigenous people of Pandumaan Sipituhuta. The homeland of this community is in Tano Batak, Humbang Hasundatan Read more
The Climate Crisis Through the Eye of the Needle: Ecology, Economics, and Religion A Counterpoint Conversation with Joerg Rieger, Annika Rieger, and Marcia Pally 5 July 2022, 10:00-12:00 CET | Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Berlin and Zoom Counterpoint and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Berlin co-organized a conversation about the deep structural links Read more
On COP26 and the Need for Parareligion By Justine M. Bakker Earlier this November, thousands of people—country leaders and activists, climate experts and NGOs—traveled to Glasgow for COP26, the 26th annual UN global Climate Summit. As world leaders were debating inside and negotiating an agreement that many criticized as, to Read more
Calling All Solarpunks! Symmetrical Myths and Rituals for Survival By Morgan Tomalty We are living in a moment where progress is no longer forward, but on we trudge down that doomed path. The “end of history” promise is of a globalized world as the ultimate social and economic antidote, but 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
Sea Lions and Seeing the Future By Anna Mercedes It might have been the repetition that got me, but I think it was the sea lions. The repetition came in the form of all the Covid-19 “seconds.” A second set of spring holidays during quarantine. So many friends’ social media posts Read more