It’s the Genes! It’s the Hair! It’s “Cooperativity”: An Evolutionary Account of Populism By Marcia Pally It’s a virus, a friend of mine said about the far-right wins in the May elections for the European Read more…
Looking Back: A Report on the Paradoxical Plausibilities Symposium – Astrological Interpretation from Different Perspectives (13–14 April, Berlin) By Sophia Löwe The question of astrological plausibility seems to spur endless discussions. Most professional astrologers and Read more…
Making a Mess By Alissa Jones Nelson My last blog post suggested that we need to think anew—personally and politically—about population growth and having children in the light of the current ecological crisis. I drew Read more…
Point/Counterpoint: A Blogger Exchange Point: Ending the Taker Culture By Loriliai Biernacki In a May 15th Counterpoint posting, Kocku von Stuckrad made the case for an alternative to the “Taker culture,” that is destroying our planetary Read more…
Unholy Alliances and the End of Taker Culture By Kocku von Stuckrad When on 6 May 2019 the United Nations published the new Report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Read more…
Progress for Whom and What? By Whitney A. Bauman Steven Pinker’s recent book Enlightenment Now argues that despite all recent, post-modern claims to the contrary, we can still be certain that reason and science are Read more…
How Not to Be the Easter Police: On the Resurrection of the Earth By John J. Thatamanil Photo by Marion Grau A certain kind of theologian—I was once one among them—scrupulously draws a sharp dichotomy Read more…
The Theology of Evangelista By Zairong Xiang And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.—1 Corinthians 13:13 On the widely claimed FX series POSE, Damon Richards, before moving Read more…
Memorializing in the Aftermath of Disaster By Sarah M. Pike Car keys dangled on the white chain link fence. A note next to them read “These keys made our lives so fabulous…Cars and a house—it’s Read more…
What Not to Say When You Pray By Anna Mercedes On March 25, 2019 Movita Johnson-Harrell took her seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, the first female Muslim to do so there. But just Read more…
