Matthew Fox urges to the graduating class of Oberlin College to “stand together in the choice […] to see our species thrive and all these other species with it.”
Ecological Transformation
What It Means to be “Great” on a Planet Going Down
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David Bromwich tells us that if we fully understood the dimensions of the coming environmental disaster, every news program would start with at least the first item being the latest environmental news.
Emancipatory Spirituality
Mystical Activism: Transforming a World in Crisis
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John C. Robinson argues that the solution to our many crises lies in the human psyche and, more specifically, in “the right-brain’s natural mystical consciousness.”
Ecological Transformation
Before Healing, We Need Connection
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Roger Gottlieb advocates for an ecological democracy that counts humans and non-humans alike—animals, trees, insects—as members of its political community.
Ecological Transformation
From Dust to Dust: The Universe and Us
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Dan Brook uses the metaphor of dust to point out the extraordinariness of human existence––and our interconnectedness with everything else.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Reflections on a Line by Anna Akhmatova*
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“The sea that tumbles onto shore is not the sea / we waded in as kids. We’ve changed its nature.” A new poem from Jon Swan.
Arts & Cultural Critique
Gazing
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“so now we […] may nightly observe […] the deft undoing of what we once / had thought would long endure.” A new poem from Jon Swan.
Ecological Transformation
Book Review: The End of Ice by Dahr Jamail
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Deena Metzger calls Dahr Jamail’s new book a record of “the terrible knowledge, moral anguish, and great love of a journalist who embeds himself in the physical reality that the natural world is suffering.”
Extinction Illness: Grave Affliction and Possibility
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Deena Metzger captures the grief and pain we all experience living at a time of global extinction and offers the only solution – to stop extinction.
Global Capitalism
The Sequel: Life After Economic Growth
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Shaun Chamberlin writes about the central dilemma in our globalized world: growth vs. non-growth and the impact on our economy and planet.
Global Capitalism
Blood Chocolate, Lessons from Zazu Dreams
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Cara Judea Alhadeff reminds us that social and environmental justice are inseparable and asks us to “consider the links between many of the popular brands of chocolate and child slavery” when buying Halloween candy this year.
Environment
The Last Holiday: Reckoning the Cost to the Planet of Leisure Travel Abroad
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Jon Swan reports on the disastrous effects of travel on the environment, and argues that we are “doomed unless we radically alter our priorities.”
Emancipatory Spirituality
Can you feel the Earthquake?
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Can you feel the Earth quaking? Simon Mont’s prose asks us to envision a beautiful world beyond the pain of oppression and trauma.
Economy/Poverty/Wealth
Feeding Children, Communities, and Souls
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An intimate portrait of a rural community’s work to undermine the military industrial complex, subvert capitalism, reclaim land, and bond faith communities together.
Emancipatory Spirituality
Theologies of Genocide and Earth Day Ethics
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Dr. Rev. Brooks Berndt provides a theological framework to rebut climate denialism.