Poetry for a Polarized People By Anna Mercedes My biggest fears of late have not been of the obvious things. Those are also fears: the earthquakes and the hurricanes and the floods. The upheaval in Read more…
The Im/Possibility of Global Solidarity By Catherine Keller Recently I found myself part of a conversation about the question: “Can Human Solidarity Globalize?” At first, political philosopher Richard Falk’s question sounds straightforward. But as one Read more…
Everybody Knows By Marcia Pally It feels like the whole thing is falling apart. Not just a tragic news story here or there but the whole network of human-human and human-planet interactions that makes life Read more…
Germany, Antisemitism, and Blackness By Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor Just recently, Germany has made the significant step in acknowledging its colonial genocide in Namibia. It has stunned the world with its generosity by promising Read more…
Marvelous Companions, Past and Present By Sven Gins One of the side effects of the pandemic has been a surge of interest in pet companions, both animal and machine. Many seniors—suddenly cut off from tangible Read more…
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…
