Planetary Goodness, Beauty, and Truth By Whitney A. Bauman In many ways the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were marked by a slow slide in western modern thought from transcendent ideals to immanent, relational realities. The Read more…
Out of the Depths: Denialism, Nihilism, and the Possibility of Ecological Civilization By Catherine Keller At this moment in this prematurely aging new year, with Omicron omnipresent, I do not want to discuss the virus. Read more…
Knowing What Is True? Between Science and Belief By Dion Forster After a somewhat “rebellious” childhood, I began to feel a strong sense of calling to the priesthood as I approached the end of high Read more…
My Schedule is Full: Boundaries on the Bountiful By Anna Mercedes I first thought my life was entirely too full to write this blog! Then I decided on second thought to write about that initial Read more…
Conformation and Transformation: Two Ways of Thinking about the World By John Thatamanil Two warring impulses operate in the world’s religious and wisdom traditions—within as well as across them. Echoes of these impulses can be Read more…
On COP26 and the Need for Parareligion By Justine M. Bakker Earlier this November, thousands of people—country leaders and activists, climate experts and NGOs—traveled to Glasgow for COP26, the 26th annual UN global Climate Summit. Read more…
Telescopes, Blind Spots, and Future Horizons on Mauna Kea By Greg Johnson This post pertains to the TMT project on Mauna Kea (Hawai`i), which the author has written about on this forum previously. For important Read more…
The End of Truth? Different Ways of Knowing Modernity with Max Weber and Rudolf Steiner By Aaron French The term “Post-truth” emerged in the context of the 2016 United States presidential election, quickly gaining in Read more…
Berl-Berl and the Normality of Animism By Kocku von Stuckrad From July through September 2021, the legendary Berghain Club in Berlin was the site of an extraordinary immersive installation by the Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Read more…
Epistemologies of Grief: Toward a More Inclusive Broken Heart By Jenny Veninga My childhood involved going to a lot of funerals, or at least it felt that way. Many of those services were for human Read more…
