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 Read more…
Globalization and Buddhism in Indonesia: Building Myanmar’s Shwedagon Pagoda By Yulianti According to the 2021 data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are approximately 2,033,608 Indonesians practicing Buddhism which is equal to 0.74% of Read more…
Decolonizing for the Planetary Community: Many Worlds, One Planet By Whitney A. Bauman Sylvia Wynter has argued, I think successfully, that the idea of the human and subsequently what the “Humanities” are, grew out of Read more…
Aborting Rights By Catherine Keller In my May 2022 blog for Counterpoint, I was reflecting on how collective crises like the war in Ukraine, a global pandemic, and (often racialized) threats to democracy inescapably distract Read more…
Which Comes First? Trust or Truth? By John Thatamanil Trust in our institutions is crumbling—churches, governments, science, higher education, etc. The list could go on indefinitely. This is a problem in my home country, the Read more…
Cultivating an Ethical Imagination in the Current Climate of Hopelessness By Dion Forster On the 16th of August 2022, I was privileged to deliver my professorial inaugural lecture as a full professor of Public Theology Read more…
Under the Radar of Hegemonic Perception: Alternative Spiritualities By Kocku von Stuckrad If you ask people in western Europe and North America if they have confidence in Christianity, economic forecast, astrology, or other providers of Read more…
Hiding in Horror: Feeling and Believing Climate Science By Donovan Schaefer We’ve all heard someone accused of “only believing what they want to believe.” It seems so obvious it’s trivial. But looking at it more Read more…
Independence or Interdependence Day? By Bron Taylor Some Europeans came to North America to gain religious freedom. Those who declared independence from England sought freedom from authoritarian rule. Yet these people participated in the genocidal Read more…
Do We Live in the Same World? Some Reflections on Polarization By Susannah Crockford When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade last week, it seemed like the United States was divided in two once Read more…
