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…
EmPower: Climate Change and Gender Justice By Vera Pokorny Amidst ever louder calls for urgent action to drastically transform our societies and economies in the face of climate change, there is increasing recognition of climate Read more…
Racial Reckoning beyond Reductionism By Krista E. Hughes Like so many, I am in the thick of the United States’ current racial reckoning, frustrated by the ways that white supremacy infects even proactive antiracist work, Read more…
Beyond Gender Categories: The Bissu of Sulawesi By Najiyah Martiam Most academic work on gender in Indonesia shows that many cultures in Indonesia have no strict gender construction of masculinity and femininity. Gender differences are Read more…
Entanglement and Relationality By Whitney A. Bauman At a recent one-day symposium in Berlin on “The Body, Religion and Planetary Imagination in a Time of Environmental Crisis,” I was asked what I meant when I Read more…
Hunting Where the Ducks Are: The Big-Picture of White Evangelical Populism in the US By Marcia Pally White evangelicals comprise a full 25 percent of American voters. Many have supported Vladimir Putin, both before the Read more…
Contraction vs Distraction: Toward Earthier Coalitions By Catherine Keller “Distracted by distraction from distraction.” That line from T.S. Eliot’s poem “Burnt Norton” has been circling in my head. It comes as a mutter when I Read more…
A Spirituality of Work? By Dion Forster I need to begin with a confession of sin. In the late 1990’s I was serving as the minister of a vibrant faith community in Cape Town. Our Read more…
Stolen Focus as Spiritual Crisis: On Joining the “Attention Rebellion” By John Thatamanil Of the creation and enumeration of crises, there is no end. Any short list of major contemporary crises must include the ongoing Read more…
Teaching Through Sirens By Anna Mercedes There seems to be a general sentiment of burn out at the liberal arts college where I teach in the American Midwest. When the Chronicle for Higher Education published Read more…
