The Dancing Monk and the Rhythm of Divine Life
Thelonious Monk’s jazz aesthetic can help us reframe theological thinking, generate new categories, and envision radically inclusive modes of being in the world. By Raymond Carr
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Memory, History, and the Ethics of Reparations
Henry Ossawa Tanner’s global pursuit of reconciliation is a cautionary tale if we are going to take corporate and civic responsibility for the crime of enslavement. By Terrence L. Johnson
Dis/appearing
Instead of a theodicy of progress, we need to enact a “hauntodicy of blackness” by staying with the dead and not moving on. By Biko Mandela Gray
The Glory of the Coming of the Lord
The last battle of Revelation informs and inspires the public sphere, whether or not the polarizing rhetoric explicitly refers to the Christian faith. By Austin Bogues
Following the Gaian Way
A new religious philosophy aims to help humans understand again that they are part of and utterly dependent on the living Earth. By Erik Assadourian
Wisdom of Webs
An interview with Sarah J. Karikó on studying spiders and exploring our interconnectedness. By Natalia Schwien
Rethinking Weeds
Greater awareness of these ubiquitous healers can have implications for ecological restoration, reverence for nature, regenerative living, and environmental justice. By Vanessa Chakour
Flora, Fauna, Fish, and Fowl
For Ojibwe-speaking communities, Creation is ongoing and cultural teachings include humility, respecting natural boundaries, and replenishing resources to support biodiversity. By Tammy Lynn Pertillar
Caring for the Warming Valley of Abundance in West Sikkim, India
Seeing cardamom as a fellow member of the sacred landscape points to a future built on multispecies justice. By Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia
The Ecological Value of Igbo Spirituality
The Igbo understanding of their land and water bodies helps the human person tread with caution. By Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu
An Earth-Centered Indigenous Spiritual Revival in Guinea
The relationship with nature is always deeply spiritual and woven into every aspect of life in Nalu religion, culture, and society. By Bintou Camara
The Greening of Psychedelics
The formation of Greenpeace and Earth First! in the 1970s was a reformation within the largest cadre of militant psychedelics, the Yippies!. By J. Christian Greer
A Year of Being With
Paintings, poetry, and reflections on entering a state of being “fully aware of the presence of another being and our shared environment” while making art. By Maisie Luo
A Theological Reckoning with ‘Bad Trips’
Reducing transcendence to its therapeutic potential ignores volumes of wisdom from traditions that emphasize the dangers of nonordinary experience. By Rachael Petersen
Simple Living & High Thinking
A professor of religion and ethics discovers the spirituality of spinning cotton khadi while living among the sisters of the Brahma Vidya Mandir ashram. By Swasti Bhattacharyya
Only Connect: Networked Christianity in the Digital Age
The digital revolution and globalization have accelerated and redirected profound religious, social, and cultural changes already underway since the 1960s. By David N. Hempton
The Karma of a Nation
An eastward journey of Japanese American Buddhism helps us to reimagine the story of American identity and confront legacies of anti-Asian violence. By Duncan Ryūken Williams
Oases of Friendship
Hannah Arendt conceived of thinking as an expression of “the visiting imagination,” in which one puts oneself in the place of another and sees the world from a displaced standpoint. By Michael D. Jackson
‘My Dreams Will Never Be the Same’
Neris Gonzalez’s love of her community and faith in a just God enable her to keep pushing for the Salvadoran generals responsible for her imprisonment and torture to be held accountable. By Julia Lieblich
The Obsidian Mirror
Narratives by Mexican authors focus on combining and confronting the different eras of our history, while poetry captures singular moments that are both archaic and recent. By Juan Villoro
