Getting Out of and Into the Common Good By Marcia Pally I’m writing this blog just on returning from a conference hosted by the Thomist Center in New York. The center aims at scholarly research Read more…
The Lure of the Separate: Reflections on Christianity, Nationalism, and Empire By Retief Müller I grew up in South Africa in late apartheid. Now, I am a church historian and curious about how Christianity and Read more…
Making Kin By Alissa Jones Nelson “Make kin, not babies.” Donna J. Haraway’s four-word gauntlet, thrown down in her 2016 book Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, becomes more relevant every day. Read more…
Poetic Science: How Literature Conveys Knowledge of Nature By Kocku von Stuckrad For most non-specialists, much information about the natural world is drawn from newspapers, TV, and popular books. Even scientists are influenced by those Read more…
On Life, Dogs, and Chernobyl By Whitney A. Bauman (Ferris Wheel, Pripyat, Ukraine) As someone who works in the broad field of “religion and nature,” and who regularly teaches a course on “Earth Ethics,” I Read more…
Predators, Prey, and Snowdrops: Recognizing the Nature of the World By Graham Harvey Some Amazonian Indigenous people recognize two ways in which living beings relate to others, as predators and prey. More accurately, sometimes a Read more…
Circling the Elephant: Why Difference Matters By John Thatamanil Recently, my wife and I dared to enter an old local haunt in her hometown, Big Bad John’s, a bar in Victoria, BC. With bras on Read more…
Fire and the Transfiguration of Paradise By Sarah Pike On the morning of November 8, 2018, the world turned silver and a shadow of its normal self. A black cloud of smoke from the Camp Read more…
On Absent Priests, the Dignity of Women, and Refugees By Anna Mercedes In a Roman Catholic monastery near the prairies of the American Midwest, more than a hundred Sisters gathered to mark the Sunday of Read more…
What is Your Part? Reflections on “Action” in a Time of Crisis By Susannah Crockford As part of my research on climate change, I recently interviewed a retired civil engineer who worked for decades in Read more…
