What Are the Time-Scapes of Our Thinking? By Whitney A. Bauman Timescape: 1) A perspective over a period (particularly a long period) of time. 2) A multidimensional view of time, especially one in which time Read more…
Beauty Will Save the World By Heather Eaton This famous and much discussed phrase from Prince Lev Nikolyaevich Myshkin in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot is that beauty will save the world. Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrestled with Read more…
Specters of Sorrow: Eco-Grief, Ambiguous Loss, and Religious Creativity By Jacob J. Erickson To live in the wake of a global pandemic is to be haunted by complex uncertainties. In planetary diversity, we navigate our Read more…
The Art Network: Artists For Plants By Sara Michieletto “Love” by Nina Maaley, France (posted on 23 April 2020) As you are all aware of, a pandemic is currently growing throughout the whole world. As Read more…
Minding the Gap: No Space for Women, Fifty Years and Counting By Jan Millsapps A telling moment at a 1974 Johns Hopkins symposium: As famed rocket scientist Wernher von Braun describes his plan for sending Read more…
Apocalypse Anymore? By Catherine Keller No doubt the Trump presidency incited my Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances. Finishing final revisions only weeks after the 2020 U.S. election, I was relieved as I Read more…
“Born Free” – A Deceptive and Dangerous Story about South Africa’s Youth By Dion Forster Each year on the 16th of June, South Africans commemorate Youth Day. It is a day on which we remember Read more…
Creatures of a Common Home: Finding Our Way to Planetary Solidarity By John Thatamanil “Maybe when the aliens show up it will finally happen,” I said to my son. “What will happen?” he inquired. “A Read more…
Sea Lions and Seeing the Future By Anna Mercedes It might have been the repetition that got me, but I think it was the sea lions. The repetition came in the form of all the Read more…
Therapeutic Praxis Beyond Being Human By A. Marie Houser For the last year, as city noise turned down—bass, tires, alarms, motors, the gurgitative sputter of diesel-fueled transport—I tuned in from the square aerie of my Read more…
