What, if Anything, Can God Do? Divine Power and the Ecological Crisis By John J. Thatamanil Powerless—that is how many feel when facing the immense ecological challenges of our time. What can anyone do about the Read more…
Yes and No to Pride, Fifty Years after Stonewall By Anna Mercedes Fifty years after Stonewall—the historic uprising begun in response to a police raid of a gay bar in New York City that launched Read more…
The Other Side of the Mountain: Art, Ritual, and Climate Change By Susannah Crockford June volunteers to go first. She stands with legs apart in a firm stance, speaking slowly with a fixed gaze, “I Read more…
“Worthy Women”: Sexual Bargaining for a Place in Utopia—or Dystopia? By Dion Forster Some white women in South Africa who are followers of the Worthy Women movement are being encouraged to present themselves as sexual Read more…
It’s the Genes! It’s the Hair! It’s “Cooperativity”: An Evolutionary Account of Populism By Marcia Pally It’s a virus, a friend of mine said about the far-right wins in the May elections for the European Read more…
Making a Mess By Alissa Jones Nelson My last blog post suggested that we need to think anew—personally and politically—about population growth and having children in the light of the current ecological crisis. I drew Read more…
Point/Counterpoint: A Blogger Exchange Point: Ending the Taker Culture By Loriliai Biernacki In a May 15th Counterpoint posting, Kocku von Stuckrad made the case for an alternative to the “Taker culture,” that is destroying our planetary Read more…
Unholy Alliances and the End of Taker Culture By Kocku von Stuckrad When on 6 May 2019 the United Nations published the new Report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Read more…
Progress for Whom and What? By Whitney A. Bauman Steven Pinker’s recent book Enlightenment Now argues that despite all recent, post-modern claims to the contrary, we can still be certain that reason and science are Read more…
How Not to Be the Easter Police: On the Resurrection of the Earth By John J. Thatamanil Photo by Marion Grau A certain kind of theologian—I was once one among them—scrupulously draws a sharp dichotomy Read more…
