The Great Pandemic Novel Will Not Be About the Pandemic By Alissa Jones Nelson If someone asked you to list the necessary tools for global transformation, fiction might not be high on your list. But Read more…
Mantra: These are Trauma Days By Anna Mercedes More than two months into working and parenting from home during the coronavirus pandemic, I am grateful to the teachers who had shown me, before the new Read more…
COVID-19 and Environmental Racism in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” By Justine M. Bakker The first time I saw Highway Gothic, a 2017 installation by artists Ellen Gallagher and Edgar Cleijne, I was struck by the use Read more…
Is This an Apocalypse? We Certainly Hope So—You Should Too By Catherine Keller and John Thatamanil The COVID-19 pandemic has many Christian communities wondering if the Apocalypse has finally arrived. We very much hope so. Read more…
When a Pandemic Makes the Impossible, Possible By Dion Forster What has been particularly interesting for me in this coronavirus pandemic is how things that we believed were impossible, suddenly became possible. I call them Read more…
Spotting Democracy’s Disruption in a Pandemic By J.D. Mechelke In a pandemic, our attention should be on stopping spread, sickness, and death. But there are less obvious places our attention should be. A state of Read more…
Spirituality in Forest Management—A New Orientation in Human-Forest Interactions By Cathrien de Pater The hall is crowded. The community of Rhenen (in the Netherlands) has gathered to question why so many trees were cut in Read more…
On Letting People Die: Coronavirus, Geronticide, and Other Worldly Matters By Teya Brooks Pribac “Charlie” – © Teya Brooks Pribac 2020 Small, realistic resolutions at the end of the year keep one happy and help Read more…
The Butterfly Effect and the Coronavirus: The Truth of Interrelatedness By John J. Thatamanil A butterfly flutters its wings in the Amazon and triggers a typhoon in China—some version of that image, with varying locations Read more…
What Lies Beneath: Wildfires and Indigenous Fire Knowledge By Sarah M. Pike “Follow the smoke,” Ali Meders-Knight told a group of us who had gathered at a local coffee shop to hear about Indigenous environmental Read more…
