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Hiding in Horror: Feeling and Believing Climate Science

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…

July 12, 2022
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Independence or Interdependence Day?

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…

July 4, 2022
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Do We Live in the Same World? Some Reflections on Polarization

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…

June 28, 2022
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EmPower: Climate Change and Gender Justice

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…

June 22, 2022
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Racial Reckoning beyond Reductionism

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…

June 9, 2022
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Beyond Gender Categories: The Bissu of Sulawesi

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…

June 1, 2022
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Entanglement and Relationality

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…

May 25, 2022
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Hunting Where the Ducks Are: The Big-Picture of White Evangelical Populism in the US

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…

May 18, 2022
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Contraction vs Distraction: Toward Earthier Coalitions

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…

May 10, 2022
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A Spirituality of Work?

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…

May 3, 2022

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