Bodhisattvas commit daily to an impossible task: the liberation of all living beings. What can climate activists learn from their active nonattachment?
30.2 Spring
Prayer as if the Earth Really Matters
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Climate prayer is powerful. Here’s how synagogues can breathe earth awareness into services and activists can make their actions prayerful.
Eco-Spirituality
The Banality of Environmental Destruction
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The things we will need to change to keep the earth safe are the very things closest to us, dearest to us, and most rooted in our traditions.
2015
Limiting Corporate Power and Cultivating Interdependence: A Strategic Plan for the Environment
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The environmental movement is too fragmented. It’s time to integrate our struggles and recognize the spiritual dimension of our political work.
2015
Facing the Death of Nature: Environmental Memorials to Counter Despair
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We must find ways to mourn lost species and care for dying ecosystems—doing so will enable us to face climate change with humility and hope.
2015
It’s Time to Get Serious About Saving the Planet from Destruction
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We can replace the ethos of endless growth and conspicuous consumption with an approach to nature based on awe and wonder at the preciousness of the earth, love of all beings, and celebration of life.
Environment
The Place of Hope in an Age of Climate Disaster
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As the earth heats up, sea levels rise, and thousands of species face extinction, it’s easy to boomerang between denial and despair.
Economy/Poverty/Wealth
Debt Forgiveness: Who Owes Whom for What?
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Most debtors have committed no wrongs, so what is called for is liberation—not forgiveness. The colossal, valid debt that remains is climate debt.
Spirituality
A Beaked and Feathered God: Rediscovering Christian Animism
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Contrary to public opinion, Christianity is an animist religion that celebrates the enfleshment of God in many forms. Sometimes, the Spirit is a dove!
Special Web Articles
God, Earth, and Strategy: Move Our Money, Protect Our Planet
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It’s time to join in a campaign to Move Our Money/Protect Our Planet—a spiritually rooted, strategically focused plan of action on the climate crisis!
Rethinking_Religion
Earth-Honoring Faith
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As we enter an age of ecological catastrophe, we need new theologies. Political campaigns are not enough—we need to rethink our place in the world.
Special Web Articles
Love Is the Connection that Makes a Future Possible
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Love is connectedness itself—connection with each other and to the Earth, fully congruent with stars, earthworms, and everything in between. To recognize the Earth in such a way is a deep spiritual practice, one that proceeds wholly beyond the terminal, parasitical relationship toward her into which humanity has fallen.
Eco-Spirituality
Technological Wisdom
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Our many inventions and devices are not only altering the face of the planet, but also radically changing our connection to nature, to each other, and to ourselves. These are profound changes worthy of our most serious attention.
Politics & Society
It’s Not Just Child’s Play: Nature’s Powerful Effect on Children’s Well-Being
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Let us not forget our deep and intrinsic connection to the natural world—a bond that can motivate, sustain, and inform all our efforts. Nurturing children’s connection to nature is one crucial step in our multifaceted struggle to save the planet, and in turn the solace of the natural world can also become a lifeline for many children.
2013
Sleeping in the Dust at Burning Man
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If “sabbath, sunshine, and sexual intercourse” offer a foretaste of the world-that-is-coming, as the Talmud suggests, then could the Burning Man festival be understood as a taste of this messianic future?