“Born Free” – A Deceptive and Dangerous Story about South Africa’s Youth By Dion Forster Each year on the 16th of June, South Africans commemorate Youth Day. It is a day on which we remember 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 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 Read more…
Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances A Discussion of Catherine Keller’s New Book Please join Counterpoint for an online discussion of Catherine Keller’s new book, Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances Read more…
Stags, Stones, and Stakes: A Point/Counterpoint Conversation with Jay Johnston Point: From Regimes of Mastery to Creative Confusion By Kocku von Stuckrad Jay Johnston’s new book with the enigmatic title Stag and Stone: Religion, Archaeology Read more…
Braiding Art, Animism, and Animation: Alisi Telengut’s The Fourfold By Anna Perdibon A flowing sound of wind and waves. A transforming image. Blue. Red. White. Green. Grey. A voice of an elder woman. The story 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 Read more…
Invoking the Sacred: Between Conflict and Peace in Climate Conflicts By Joram Tarusarira The impacts of climate change are increasingly undermining human, national, and international security. The modern obsession with positivism and technical approaches to Read more…
Anthropocentrism and Quietism: Scylla and Charybdis for an Integrated Migration-ecological Ethics? By Gary Slater When seeking to develop an ethics that integrates concern for ecological devastation with international migration, rich material abounds. Worthwhile responses to Read more…
At the End of the World (in a Van) By Devin Zuber Currently making its rounds through cinemas this spring (2021), Chloé Zhao’s haunting Nomadland is a creative adaptation of Jessica Bruder’s 2017 non-fiction book Read more…
