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
Pandemic Pandemonium By Catherine Keller Photo: Le Pandemonium, by John Martin, 1841, Le Louvre Pandemic and pandemonium—was it mere alliteration insistently linking those two words in my head? They seem disconnected: the pandemic has spread eerie silence and ordered separation far more than the pandemonium of wild and noisy Read more
The Great Pandemic Novel Will Not Be About the Pandemic By Alissa Jones Nelson If someone asked you to list the necessary tools for global transformation, fiction might not be high on your list. But perhaps it should be. At a recent Counterpoint event, the panelists (including myself) were asked Read more
In the Midst of a Global Pandemic: A Conversation about Dependency, Interconnectedness, and Planetarity 15 May 2020 Dorothea Green Lecture Series, Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs The current Covid crisis, among other things, highlights our dependency upon human others: not just medical workers, but the people who Read more