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On Life, Dogs, and Chernobyl

On Life, Dogs, and Chernobyl By Whitney A. Bauman   (Ferris Wheel, Pripyat, Ukraine)  As someone who works in the broad field of “religion and nature,” and who regularly teaches a course on “Earth Ethics,” I Read more…

7 days ago February 13, 2019
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Predators, Prey, and Snowdrops: Recognizing the Nature of the World

Predators, Prey, and Snowdrops: Recognizing the Nature of the World By Graham Harvey Some Amazonian Indigenous people recognize two ways in which living beings relate to others, as predators and prey. More accurately, sometimes a Read more…

2 weeks ago February 6, 2019
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Circling the Elephant: Why Difference Matters

Circling the Elephant: Why Difference Matters By John Thatamanil Recently, my wife and I dared to enter an old local haunt in her hometown, Big Bad John’s, a bar in Victoria, BC. With bras on Read more…

3 weeks ago January 30, 2019
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Fire and the Transfiguration of Paradise

Fire and the Transfiguration of Paradise By Sarah Pike On the morning of November 8, 2018, the world turned silver and a shadow of its normal self. A black cloud of smoke from the Camp Read more…

4 weeks ago January 23, 2019
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On Absent Priests, the Dignity of Women, and Refugees

On Absent Priests, the Dignity of Women, and Refugees By Anna Mercedes In a Roman Catholic monastery near the prairies of the American Midwest, more than a hundred Sisters gathered to mark the Sunday of Read more…

1 month ago January 16, 2019
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Cleo Mikutta: \\ //, Part 3

\\  // By Cleo Mikutta – III –   // \\   On a cruise ship caught in a tropical storm, the chlorine water in the indoor swimming pool has begun to imitate the violent Read more…

1 month ago January 14, 2019
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What is Your Part? Reflections on “Action” in a Time of Crisis

What is Your Part? Reflections on “Action” in a Time of Crisis  By Susannah Crockford As part of my research on climate change, I recently interviewed a retired civil engineer who worked for decades in Read more…

1 month ago January 8, 2019
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Proud to be Bird-Brained 

Proud to be Bird-Brained By Jay Johnston I sat awkwardly aware of the tears coalescing and starting to slide down my cheeks. There I was, in the audience at a small community hall on a Read more…

2 months ago December 19, 2018
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Art Meets Astrology: Towards a Broader Understanding of Art History

Art Meets Astrology: Towards a Broader Understanding of Art History  By Klemens Ludwig Traditional art historians and scholars ignore or even deny the importance of astrology in art. This limited view had led to some Read more…

2 months ago December 12, 2018
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Preserving Religious Freedom When (Some) Churches Abuse their Members? 

Preserving Religious Freedom When (Some) Churches Abuse their Members? By Dion Forster  Religion plays a significant role in the lives of most South Africans. In the last census (2011), just over 84 percent of citizens Read more…

3 months ago December 4, 2018

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