Shallow Pluralism and Indigenous Communities in Indonesia By Jear Nenohai Since the passing of Indonesia’s Minister of Education and Culture Regulation no. 27 of 2016, concerning “Education Services for Belief in God Almighty in Education Units,” Read more…
We Should All Learn kōkua and kāko‘o By Lina Aschenbrenner On Wednesday, 9 August 2023, Hawai‘i wakes up to devastating videos of Lahaina going up in flames and images of complete annihilation—houses, cars, and people—from Read more…
The Strangeness of the Planetary Future By Whitney A. Bauman Wicked problems call for puzzling solutions. Wicked, here, is of course not the slang skater/surfer/stoner complement when something is amazing. Rather, it is a technical Read more…
“J” is for Nothing: Oppenheimer’s, Nolan’s, and My Enchantments By Lisa H. Sideris In the Land of Enchantment My interest in J. Robert Oppenheimer began in earnest around 1990 when, as a graduate student in Read more…
Religious Naturalism, Emergence, and Science: A Counterpoint Conversation Conversation Partners: Ursula Goodenough and Terrence Deacon Biologist Ursula Goodenough published the first edition of The Sacred Depths of Nature in 1998. The second edition, published in Read more…
Divide and Rule: How the Growing Rift between Peace, Climate, and Social Justice Movements Is Cementing a Ruinous Status Quo By Fabian Scheidler Environmental and peace movements are profoundly divided in many countries today. The Read more…
Celebrating Five Years of Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge By Whitney A. Bauman and Kocku von Stuckrad If we want to address the major challenges of the 21st century—first and foremost climate disasters, human and other-than-human interdependencies Read more…
Nature’s Symphonic Beauty: Towards a New Paradigm By Sara Michieletto Art has the power to drive human progress by helping us think beyond our limitations and obstacles. Its power is needed more than ever, as Read more…
The Sacred Depths of Nature: 25 Years Later By Ursula Goodenough I wrote the first edition of The Sacred Depths of Nature during a 3-month marathon in the spring of 1997, weaving together a lifetime Read more…
